I don't believe in your "Good". I believe in human kindness.

At war a Russian man puts on a white shirt. He may live in sin, but he dies like a saint.

Why do people have memories? It would be easier to die - anything to stop remembering.

I don't believe in your "Good". I believe in human kindness.

There's nothing more difficult than saying goodbye to a house where you've suffered.

I have written only what I have thought through, felt through and suffered through.

The sea was not freedom; it was a likeness of freedom, a symbol of freedom...How splendid freedom must be if a mere likeness of it, a mere reminder of it, is enough to fill a man with happiness.