“A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.”
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You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.
The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.
Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.
The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.
