We Didn't Love Freedom Enough.

The Most Intense Patriotism Always Flourishes In The Rear.

I Have Spent All My Life Under A Communist Regime, And I Will Tell You That A Society Without Any Objective Legal Scale Is A Terrible One Indeed. But A Society With No Other Scale But The Legal One Is Not Quite Worthy Of Man Either.

I Am Of Course Confident That I Will Fulfill My Tasks As A Writer In All Circumstances - From My Grave Even More Successfully And More Irrefutably Than In My Lifetime. No One Can Bar The Road To Truth, And To Advance Its Cause I Am Prepared To Accept Even Death. But May It Be That Repeated Lessons Will Finally Teach Us Not To Stop The Writer's Pen During His Lifetime? At No Time Has This Ennobled Our History.

The Sole Substitute For An Experience Which We Have Not Ourselves Lived Through Is Art And Literature.

One Should Never Direct People Towards Happiness, Because Happiness Too Is An Idol Of The Market-place. One Should Direct Them Towards Mutual Affection. A Beast Gnawing At Its Prey Can Be Happy Too, But Only Human Beings Can Feel Affection For Each Other, And This Is The Highest Achievement They Can Aspire To.