For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
A person is really dead only when nobody thinks of him anymore.
He who is still laughing is he who hasn't heard the terrible news.
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.