The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people.
From Milan Kundera
No matter how much we scorn it, kitsch is an integral part of the human condition.
Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent.
You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.
A worker may be the hammer's master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be handled, while the user of the tool can only have an approximate idea.
He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.
Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.
Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries.
The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists' discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish.
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.
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