Love is a battle, and I plan to go on fighting. To the end.

The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long that nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was... The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten.

Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress.

If we cannot accept the importance of the world, which considers itself important, if in the midst of that world our laughter finds no echo, we have but one choice: to take the world as a whole and make it the object of our game; to turn it into a toy

And therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition.

The more vast the amount of time we've left behind us, the more irresistible is the voice calling us to return to it.