The dialectic of history is launched from a multiplicity of individual praxes.

His taste and sensibility have become more catholic and more generous.

as if at bottom there were only one art which expressed itself indifferently in one or the other of these languages, like the Spinozistic substance which is adequately reflected by each of its attributes

If the prose-writer is too eager to fondle his words, the eidos of 'prose' is shattered and we fall into highfalutin nonsense.

When the enemy is separated from you by a barrier of fire, you have to judge him as a whole, as the incarnation of evil; all war is a form of Manicheism.

The milieu is vis a tergo

The breviary of the ambitious bourgeois was 'The Art of Making Good'; the breviary of the rich was 'The Art of Commanding'.

as a producer and revolutionary, he is par excellence, the subject of a literature of praxis

the freedom of man and the coming of the classless society are likewise absolute goals, unconditioned exigencies which literature can reflect in its own exigency

The good that I try to do will be vitiated at the roots