"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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"Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight.“
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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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"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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"There's no love more intense than the love we have for our kids - and where there is intense love, there is also intense fear lurking beneath the surface."
-Arianna Huffington
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"You don't have to do everything by the time you're 30. Or 40. All you need is a work ethic. It's what allows you to push through moments of disappointment and self-doubt and fear."
-Candace Bushnell
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"I think interviews can be fine. It's just there's this terrible fear of coming off wrongly or saying something that gets taken out of context."
-Nicholas Hoult
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"Don't fear anything for your letters, they are burnt one by one and I hope you do the same with mine."
-Camille Claudel
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"I think, however, that so long as our present economic and national systems continue, scientific research has little to fear."
-John B. S. Haldane
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"Greatness comes from fear. Fear can either shut us down and we go home, or we fight through it."
-Lionel Richie
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