"The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead."
-Milan Kundera
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"True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.“
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"The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything."
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"Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it."
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"The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting."
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