Anthony Burgess's quotes (sethmessenger.fr - Some short news to get away from it all).

#6399
Without love, so hard to practice, life isn't a constant struggle to own and defend themselves from the others.

Anthony Burgess
(Entretien avec Sophie Lannes - Juin 1977)

#6400
The man isn't a creature for happiness. This is. Confronted with this anxiety that does not exist in animals: the consciousness of the future. And still more, that of death.

Anthony Burgess
(Entretien avec Sophie Lannes - Juin 1977)

#6401
The man seems predestined to evil. At the same time it is free. How to reconcile free will and predestination?

Anthony Burgess
(Entretien avec Sophie Lannes - Juin 1977)

#6402
A writer is an inventor. It must be able to totally recreate a world to him.

Anthony Burgess
(Entretien avec Pierre Assouline - Juin 1988)

#6403
God: an entity that reconciles all antagonisms, beauty and ugliness, the forces of good and forces of evil, the complexity and simplicity, in the fullness of unity.

Anthony Burgess
(Entretien avec Sophie Lannes - Juin 1977)

#6404
Focus on sleep has what Marvel. Focus on the beds has something to fear.

Anthony Burgess
(Sur le lit)

#6405
There are moments where there is goodness or beauty in truth.

Anthony Burgess
(Les puissances des ténèbres)

#6406
Stuck as it is between two eternities of idleness, there is no excuse to stay and do nothing.

Anthony Burgess
(Source inconnue)

#6407
No doubt death is the essential human experience and should prepare every minute of his life?

Anthony Burgess
(Entretien avec Sophie Lannes - Juin 1977)

#6408
Happy are those whose life has been completed, accomplished.

Anthony Burgess
(Entretien avec Sophie Lannes - Juin 1977)

#6409
Man is a creature capable of choice. This is even which distinguishes it from the other creatures and that defines.

Anthony Burgess
(Entretien avec Sophie Lannes - Juin 1977)

#6410
An artist should not be under any illusions: the completely successful works are exceptional.

Anthony Burgess
(Entretien avec Sophie Lannes - Juin 1977)

#6411
Without character, no novel.

Anthony Burgess
(Entretien avec Pierre Assouline - Juin 1988)

#6412
No one can tell what the future will bring, what humans will be able to achieve. And it is this stranger, this unpredictable side of the man who makes life so interesting!

Anthony Burgess
(Entretien avec Sophie Lannes - Juin 1977)

#6413
The total perfection of the work which is a whole, a universe unto itself and makes you exclaim: "there must be a God! "It's God that is expressed by this work!" It's so totally inexplicable, perfection...

Anthony Burgess
(Entretien avec Sophie Lannes - Juin 1977)

#6415
Love and tolerance are the only answer to the problem of life. This precept, very simple, and very difficult to apply, can be accepted, understood by anyone, believer or non-believer. It is the only way.

Anthony Burgess
(Entretien avec Sophie Lannes - Juin 1977)

#6416
Death. The absolute horror of nonexistence. Death is no schema. There's no explanation for the death. She enters, she stops you in mid-sentence: "No, it's over" and slams the door.

Anthony Burgess
(Entretien avec Sophie Lannes - Juin 1977)

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