As if there could be true stories: things happen in one way, and we retell them in the opposite way.

As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.

To keep hope alive one must, in spite of all mistakes, horrors, and crimes, recognize the obvious superiority of the socialist camp.

Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.

I have crossed the seas, I have left cities behind me, and I have followed the source of rivers towards their source or plunged into forests, always making for other cities. I have had women, I have fought with men ; and I could never turn back any more than a record can spin in reverse. And all that was leading me where ? To this very moment.

I had spent my time counterfeiting eternity.

As if there could be true stories: things happen in one way, and we retell them in the opposite way.