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- Assess
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- Nov 07, 2020
Basically, it's hard for me to assess myself, a hardship not only prompted by the immodesty of the enterprise, but because one is not capable of assessing himself, let alone his work. However, if I were to summarize, my main interest is the nature of time. That's what interests me most of all. What time can do to a man.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like the idea of isolation. I like the reality of it. You realize what you are... not that the knowledge is inevitably rewarding.
- Creative
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing convinces an artist more of the arbitrariness of the means to which he resorts to attain a goal - however permanent it may be - than the creative process itself, the process of composition.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Regardless of whether one is a writer or a reader, one's task consists first of all in mastering a life that is one's own, not imposed or prescribed from without, no matter how noble its appearance may be. For each of us is issued but one life, and we know full well how it all ends.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
What makes art in general, and literature in particular, remarkable, what distinguishes them from life, is precisely that they abhor repetition. In everyday life, you can tell the same joke thrice and, thrice getting a laugh, become the life of the party. In art, though, this sort of conduct is called 'cliche.'
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't suppose that I know more about life than anyone of my age, but it seems to me that, in the capacity of an interlocutor, a book is more reliable than a friend or a beloved.
- Philosophy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I began to despise Lenin, even when I was in the first grade, not so much because of his political philosophy or practice... but because of his omnipresent images.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
For some odd reason, the expression 'death of a poet' always sounds somewhat more concrete than 'life of a poet.'
- Cornered
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man is, after all, what he loves. But one always feels cornered when asked to explain why one loves this or that person, and what for. In order to explain it - which inevitably amounts to explaining oneself - one has to try to love the object of one's attention a little bit less.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is almost a rule that the more complex a man is, the simpler his billing. A person with a retrospective ability gone rampant often would be called an historian. Similarly, one to whom reality doesn't seem to make sense gets dubbed a philosopher.
- Blossomed
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- Nov 07, 2020
The invention of ethical and political doctrines, which blossomed into our own social sciences, is a product of times when things appeared manageable. The same goes for the criticism of those doctrines, though as a voice from the past, this criticism proved prophetic.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
No matter how daring or cautious you may choose to be, in the course of your life, you are bound to come into direct physical contact with what's known as Evil. I mean here not a property of the gothic novel but, to say the least, a palpable social reality that you in no way can control.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
To put it mildly, nothing can be turned and worn inside out with greater ease than one's notion of social justice, public conscience, a better future, etc.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
Evil is a sucker for solidity. It always goes for big numbers, for confident granite, for ideological purity, for drilled armies and balanced sheets.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change - within himself, not on the outside.
- Battle
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life - the way it really is - is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse.
- Communication
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
Who included me among the ranks of the human race?
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man is what he reads.
- Form
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bad literature is a form of treason.
- Consulting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life is a game with many rules but no referee. One learns how to play it more by watching it than by consulting any book, including the holy book. Small wonder, then, that so many play dirty, that so few win, that so many lose.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.
- Judge
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- Nov 07, 2020
It would be enough for me to have the system of a jury of twelve versus the system of one judge as a basis for preferring the U.S. to the Soviet Union. I would prefer the country you can leave to the country you cannot.
- Find
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- Nov 07, 2020
How delightful to find a friend in everyone.
- Infinity
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- Nov 07, 2020
The poetic notion of infinity is far greater than that which is sponsored by any creed.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.
- Journey
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- Nov 07, 2020