Brutally honest (even about himself), aesthetician, soldier, journalist, travel writer, essayist, anti-American, reactionary, and absolutely hilarious; a paradigm of lucidity in the writing of prose, he was the greatest novelist of the English language in the 20th century.
"In every battle the eyes are the first to be conquered..."
- Tacitus, Germania
"One must work in solitude as a man who opens a clearing in virgin forest, sustained by the unique hope that somewhere in its depths, others are working to the same end."
- Ernst Jünger
"I find that I must go handsomely, whatever it costs me, and the charge will be made up in the fruit it brings."
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Brutally honest (even about himself), aesthetician, soldier, journalist, travel writer, essayist, anti-American, reactionary, and absolutely hilarious; a paradigm of lucidity in the writing of prose, he was the greatest novelist of the English language in the 20th century.
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