War and culture, those are the two poles of Europe, her heaven and hell, her glory and shame, and they cannot be separated from one another. When one comes to an end, the other will end also and one cannot end without the other. The fact that no war has broken out in Europe for fifty years is connected in some mysterious way with the fact that for fifty years no new Picasso has appeared either.

A man able to think isn't defeated - even when he is defeated.

He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.

All lovers unconsciously establish their own rules of the game, which from the outset admit of no transgression.

In the political jargon of those days, the word "intellectual" was an insult. It indicated someone who did not understand life and was cut off from the people. All the Communists who were hanged at the time by other Communists were awarded such abuse. Unlike those who had their feet solidly on the ground, they were said to float in the air. So it was fair, in a way, that as punishment the ground was permanently pulled out from under their feet, that they remained suspended a little above the floor.

La memoria no guarda películas, guarda fotografías.

People are going deaf because music is played louder and louder, but because they're going deaf, it has to be played louder still.