The State always stands for swindling, intrigue, and privilege, and cannot stand for anything else.

Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.

To grow up requires a whole life but to become old one night is enough.

No one can ever write about anything that happened to him after he was twelve years old.

Liberty isn't a thing you are given as a present. You can be a free man under a dictatorship. It is sufficient if you struggle against it.

The State always stands for swindling, intrigue, and privilege, and cannot stand for anything else.

Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.