Cracks make caves collapse.

Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.

Literature that is not the breath of contemporary society, that dares not transmit the pains and fears of that society . . . loses the confidence of its own people, and its published works are used as wastepaper instead of being read.

... any country that is not careful can be seized.

A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.

It is within the power of writers and artists to do much more: to defeat the lie!

Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.