“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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He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.
The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.
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.
The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.
