For rich people, the sky is just an extra, a gift of nature. The poor, on the other hand, can see it as it is, a gift of infinite grace.

As soon as one does not kill oneself, one must keep silent about life.

The first concern of any dictatorship is, consequently, to subjugate both labor and culture.

For there is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving.

Rebellion cannot exist without the feeling that somewhere, in some way, you are justified.

Suffering gives us no special rights.

And indeed it could be said that once the faintest stirring of hope became possible, the dominion of plague was ended.