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- "Chess may be the deepest, least exhaustible of pastimes, but it is nothing more. As ..."
- "Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and ..."
- "Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent. "
- "More and more lower-middle-income families either live their lives in debt or leave the city ..."
- "The age of the book is almost gone. "
- "The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion. "
- "The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and ..."
- "The most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece ..."
- "There is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise and gregariousness. "
- "To shoot a man because one disagrees with his interpretation of Darwin or Hegel is ..."
- "We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he ..."
- "Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life. "
