Quote #116

By what right, moreover, could a Christian or a Marxist accuse me, for example, of pessimism? I was not the one to invent the misery of the human being or the terrifying formulas of divine malediction.

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  2. Charm is a way of getting the answer 'Yes' without asking a clear question.
  3. But I have been sought out, as each individual has been sought out. Artists of the past could at least keep silent in the face of tyranny. …
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  6. Creating is living doubly.
  7. Being able to remain on that dizzying crest - that is integrity and the rest is subterfuge.
  8. Differences are the roots without which the tree of liberty, the sap of creation and of civilization, dries up.

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