“The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.”
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The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.
If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.
Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace.
Hope is a feeling that life and work have meaning. You either have it or you don't, regardless of the state of the world that surrounds you.