A storm breaks trees. It only bends grass.

Someone that you have deprived of everything is no longer in your power. He is once again entirely free.

You know the words from the Bible: 'Build not on sand, but on rock....' Tyrant leaders respect only firmness...and laugh at persons who give in to them.

The solemn pledge to abstain from telling the truth was called socialist realism.

But what can you say in a letter?

A great writer is, so to speak, a secret government in his country

We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.