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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The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but the ignominy, the humiliation we feel that we must be what we are without any choice in the matter, and that this humiliation is seen by everyone.
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Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age of universal deafness and lack of understanding.
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