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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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No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.
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The film that changed my life is a 1951 film by Vittorio De Sica, 'Miracle in Milan.' It's a remarkable comment on slums, poverty and aspiration.
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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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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.
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All great novels, all true novels, are bisexual.
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At the end of true love is death, and only the love that ends in death is love.
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Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent.
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Eroticism is like a dance: one always leads the other.
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For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence?
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I feel a frantic desire to free myself. To start all over again and in another way.
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I think, therefore I am is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.
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I've spent a lot of years living with normal people. If I take a private jet to go to a meeting in Milan, well, that's my business; I can do it. But I don't live for it.
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Immortality is a ridiculous illusion, an empty word, a butterfly net chasing the wind.
Source: De grap (1967) -
Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries.
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Listening to a news broadcast is like smoking a cigarette and crushing the butt in the ashtray.
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Man reckons with immortality, and forgets to reckon with death.
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Memory does not make films, it makes photographs.
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