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.
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 final conflict will be between the Communists and the ex-Communists.
No one can ever write about anything that happened to him after he was twelve years old.
The State always stands for swindling, intrigue, and privilege, and cannot stand for anything else.