Quotes by Ovidiu Cotruș

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Man can be judged only by what he does... We cannot know a subjective experience... except to the extent of its objectification.

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I consider fundamental that writer who gives a new form of expression to the whole life of a community.

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Any authentic work of art bears witness to the spiritual reality of its creator.

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Poetry... is a dialogue... with existence, a pathetic and ceaseless struggle with the mysteries of the world... the expression in specific forms of a drama of knowledge.

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Any creation involves overcoming the sphere of subjectivity, establishing a dialogue with other human consciousnesses...

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Only works that transcend the conditioning of their historical moment, revealing the permanence of human nature, can pass the test of time.

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A national literature participates in universal literature not through what it takes from other literatures, but through its strictly original contribution, so precisely through the elements that express its specificity...

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In this sense, the great creative personalities are bearers of the national specificity to the extent that their work is carried out on the plane of universal values.

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The problem of national specificity can only be raised within an international context of literature, as only the existence of a universal literature gives us the right to talk about national literatures, as members that participate in the life of an organism that is all the more unitary and complex as it is more differentiated...

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National specificity presupposes unity in diversity, and it can be said that a culture is the more specific (with more accentuated personal notes) the more divergent the component elements of its unity are.

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A work that does not adhere to anything and cannot ultimately integrate into a continuity, remains a hybrid product elaborated on the edge of existence...