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“Dans la cour de l'hôpital éclairée par ce soleil de juin qui devenait la pire injure au malheur, je compris, pour la première fois car quand Stéphane l'avait dit je n'avais pas voulu le croire, que Muzil allait mourir, incessament sous peu, et cette certitude me défigura dans le regard des passants qui me croisaient, ma face en bouille s'écoulait dans mes pleurs et volait en morceaux dans mes cris, j'étais fou de douleur, j'étais le Cri de Munch.”

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Book:À l'ami qui ne m'a pas sauvé la vie
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“Veo en las telas la mirada del que ve la finitud en todas las cosas, la mirada del que miró para adentro, un hombre a quien el hecho de intuir que alguien frente a sus cuadros se conmovería en un futuro tan remoto como hoy, no consolaba. Sólo hizo lo que no pudo dejar de hacer: pintar. Dar el salto, inventar su propia forma, anticipar una respuesta. La tristeza no estaba en "La serie de la muerte" porque la muerte, como la vida, es algo que sucede: la tristeza estaba en lo de todos los días, en la futilidad de los hechos, en la lluvia que cae, en la indiferencia de los otros, en el amor que sentimos, en el viento que pasa.”

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Book:Encuentro con Munch
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“The Gandhi-Irwin truce, signed in New Delhi on March 5, 1931, marked a turning point in the Indian revolution and in the affairs of the British Empire. Not that Gandhi won much. I was surprised that he had conceded so much, and Nehru was bitter. The Mahatma seemed to have given in on almost every issue. Not even his eloquent defence of what he believed he had achieved, imparted to me in long talks on the succeeding days, convinced me that he had not, to an amazing extent, surrendered. It would take some time for me to realise that Gandhi, with his subtle feeling for the course of history, had actually achieved a great deal. For the first time since the British took away India from the Indians, they had been forced, as Churchill bitterly complained, to deal with an Indian leader as an equal. For the first time the British acknowledged that Gandhi represented the aspirations and indeed the demands of most of the Indians for self-government. And that from then on, he, and the Indian National Congress he dominated, would have to be dealt with seriously.”

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Book:Gandhi: A Memoir
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