Certain souls may seem harsh to others, but it is just a way, beknownst only to them, of caring and feeling more deeply.
Marquis de SadeAbout author
- Author's profession: Novelist, Writer, Philosopher
- Nationality: french
- Born: June 2, 1740
- Died: December 2, 1814
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The book I'm looking for,' says the blurred figure, who holds out a volume similar to yours, 'is the one that gives the sense of the world after the end of the world, the sense that the world is the end of everything that there is in the world, that the only thing there is in the world is the end of the world.
Italo Calvino
Why, then, make a show of the poverty of our life and our sad imperfection, unearthing people from the backwoods, from remote corners of the state? But what if this is in the writer's nature, and his own imperfection grieves him so, and the makeup of his talent is such, that he can only portray the poverty of our life, unearthing people from the backwoods, from the remote corners of the state! So here we are again in the backwoods, again we have come out in some corner!
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