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"To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears."
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"Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game."
"Man does not speak because he thinks; he thinks because he speaks. Or rather, speaking is no different than thinking: to speak is to think."
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"If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time."
"Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history."
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"Negotiating in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree."
"Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word."
"All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense."
"I enjoyed doing the gag covers better than the story ones because they were usually simpler. A cover based on an incident in the plot took a great deal of staging to tell a little story that was still part of the book. And it had to make sense on its own."
"I think only of objects: of a leg or an arm, of the wonderful sense of foreshortening, breaking through the plane, of the division of space, of the combination of straight lines in relation to curved ones."
"I had pictured myself as a filmmaker but I had never pictured myself as a director if that makes any sense at all."
"In the broad and sweeping sense which the use of the term generally implies, I am not a free-trader."
"If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers."
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