• Various

  Our lives teach us who we are.

  4.8 · 48 votes · 26 reads

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• Time

  Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems -but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems incredible.

  3.4 · 15 votes · 53 reads

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• Art and Culture

  The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins.

  4.2 · 49 votes · 176 reads

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• Society

  The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.

  4.7 · 57 votes · 130 reads

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• Art and Culture

  The liveliness of literature lies in its exceptionality, in being the individual, idiosyncratic vision of one human being, in which, to our delight and great surprise, we may find our own vision reflected.

  3.0 · 19 votes · 46 reads

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• Art and Culture

  The novel does not seek to establish a privileged language but it insists upon the freedom to portray and analyze the struggle between the different contestants for such privileges.

  3.4 · 9 votes · 178 reads

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• Art and Culture

  The only privilege literature deserves - and this privilege it requires in order to exist - is the privilege of being in the arena of discourse, the place where the struggle of our languages can be acted out.

  4.7 · 23 votes · 129 reads

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• Art and Culture

  The real risks for any artist are taken in pushing the work to the limits of what is possible, in the attempt to increase the sum of what it is possible to think. Books become good when they go to this edge and risk falling over it -when they endanger the

  3.4 · 40 votes · 160 reads

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• Various

  Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.

  3.5 · 18 votes · 154 reads

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• Government and Politics

  We must conclude that it is not only a particular political ideology that has failed, but the idea that men and women could ever define themselves in terms that exclude their spiritual needs.

  3.9 · 27 votes · 79 reads

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• Society

  Where there is no belief, there is no blasphemy.

  5.0 · 24 votes · 90 reads

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• Art and Culture

  Whores and writers, Mahound. We are the people you can't forgive.

  4.8 · 42 votes · 51 reads

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• Art and Culture

  Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.

  3.4 · 60 votes · 43 reads

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• Society

  Your blasphemy, Salman, can't be forgiven. To set your words against the Words of God.

  3.4 · 23 votes · 61 reads

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