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Each of Hrabal's novels describes a spiral, a constant intricate movement between pleasure and fear and guilt and delight: they describe the difficult effort to be a hedonist in a world where pleasure has disappeared, because the conditions for pleasure have disappeared - where the only recognised truth is history, or politics.
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He shows that men are capable of recognising truth, and that, because mind acts as a real cause, they will act on it when they perceive it clearly.
Foreign and local businesses, analysts and politicians alike have long recognised this truth, especially if they have visited China.
Why did we have to wait for a catastrophe before we recognised the truth of that perception?
Some academics who recognised the truth "suggested the poet's homosexuality was alien to his poetic creativity", Gibson writes of the man he's studied for 40 years.
Income tax fell out of favour with politicians a couple of decades ago.They recognised the truth of George Bernard Shaw's cynical but accurate dictum that a government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always count on the support of Paul.
Thirty years later, in the aftermath of a state ban on the screening of a film of the novella on national TV, one of these soldiers, Ephraim Kleiman, stepped forward to claim that every soldier will have recognised the truth of the story, that every soldier has his own personal "Khirbet Khizeh".
Novelists long ago recognised this truth; literature is full of characters falling in love with the people in paintings, obsessing over enigmatic figures, feeling intimidated – or intensely disappointed, in the case of Madame Bovary – by their first sighting of a tarry old master.
We laughed because we recognised the truth in it; we laughed until it fed back into itself and came to define how we view relationships, sex and dating.
Recognising the truth is part of a healing process".
Most of us recognise the truth of Philip Larkin's lines.
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