I am not asking for sensational revelations, but I would like to sense the meaning of that minute, to feel it's urgency.

Handing over a bank note is enough to make a bicycle belong to me, but my entire life is needed to realize this possession.

I committed the first crime by creating men as mortals. After that, what more could you do, you the murderers? Come on; they already had death in them: at most you simply hastened things a little.

Once freedom lights its beacon in man's heart, the gods are powerless against him.

That is exactly the writer's problem. What does literature stand for in a hungry world?

The more absurd life is, the more insupportable death is.

Philosophy which does not help to illuminate the process of the liberation of the oppressed should be rejected.