Quotes by Camil Petrescu

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Posterity is not an absolute judgment... It is according to the scale of values ​​of its time.

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Only when the work of art gives the obvious impression that it is a reflection of deep reality, that it reflects the world as much as possible, in all its dimensions, as it is, only then do we call it authentic.

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Art is soul ferment in eternal patterns, and this churning is all the more precious as it springs from a more complex and abundant consciousness.

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The artist must conceive in pain, but must realize in joy, in the drunkenness of creating.

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The artist can only tell his own vision of the world.

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The purpose of the writer is to raise consciousness in the world through his writing.

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The writer is a lighted lamp that illuminates the dark vaults where unjust blows take place, the hiding places where the brood of evil lurks.

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The soul of a great writer is the soul synthesis of a people at a given time.

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Poetry is not above the real, it is only an overcoming of the real, it starts from the real...

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I do not conceive of art except as an expression of truth... therefore, art has the same object as the so-called moral sciences...

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I think that literature must deal above all with soul values.

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If we affirm that the literature of an age is correlated with the psychology of that age, and if we insist on showing that psychology itself is dependent on the philosophical explanation of the time, we return with even more justification to the claim that a literature must be structurally synchronic, to philosophy and her science.

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The writer... is a man who expresses in writing with a preliminary sincerity, what he felt, what he thought, what happened in his life, to him and to those he met, or even to inanimate objects.

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The consciousness of a people finds its expression in its art, and this expression, in turn, strengthens the consciousness, as gymnastics strengthens a body.

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No opinion in the world is entitled to respect just because it is an opinion... The only thing that should be respected is the truth.

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You pull the chariot of fate, you don't count your steps, you just go.

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We can never know reality. (...) All beauty has its dark side and is ephemeral.

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A woman should behave as a wife should, and her home should be a home. If you have other thoughts, don't get married.

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A civilized society is distinguished from an educated society by the fact that its members passionately and enthusiastically ape all the manifestations of an educated society, but they do not have the endurance to actually implement or undertake the obligations associated with it with sufficient courage.

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Above all, war demands raw honesty. You can't act here, not even for fun.

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According to the basic principle of warfare, the war is won by the army that has put the least amount of force into the fight.

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A person can kill a whole list of people, but it would be difficult if he saw the bearers of the names in flesh and blood form.

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Sexual desire is worthless if it lacks the concept of personality.

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A truly beautiful physical love is nothing but a dishonor to the soul. It is a bitter compulsion to hug the fragile prisoner inside, the soul, in those moments together with the writhing body. And the more intense the desire for this humiliation is, the more noble souls we destroy.

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There is hardly one perfect beauty among a million women. The rest needs to be forgiven and understood. Only the soul can compensate for disabilities.

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The woman only cheats on the one she loves, and the rest she simply leaves behind.

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Apart from consciousness, everything in us is purely animal. And not in a person's joy, sadness, smile, passions, worldview, generosity, love, understanding, tenderness, does he give in to animal instincts.

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The right to love is a sacred thing... a woman should never be forbidden to find her own happiness.

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We must acknowledge that love is not free from danger, that those who love each other are responsible for life and death for each other.

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Any love is like monotheism, initially voluntary and then pathological.

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All love is mostly self-suggestion... It takes time and complicity to develop.

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The beauty of love is that it does not tolerate any kind of coercion. A sincere affection.

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If they weren't stupid, the smart ones would have their chins up.