One day posterity will remember these strange times, when ordinary common honesty was called courage.

One day posterity will remember these strange times, when ordinary common honesty was called courage.

Give me a mystery - just a plain and simple one - a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery - just one!

Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.

Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful.

Those who are used to a cage will weep for a cage.

True sport is always a duel, a duel with nature, with one's own fear, with one's own fatigue, a duel in which the body and the mind are strengthened.