Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods. Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.

In the contradiction lies the hope.

One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.

First the pork chops, then morality

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.

No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.