A Strong Man Never Loses

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.

Literature Cannot Develop Between The Categories "permitted"—"not Permitted"—"this You Can And That You Can't." Literature That Is Not The Air Of Its Contemporary Society, That Dares Not Warn In Time Against Threatening Moral And Social Dangers, Such Literature Does Not Deserve The Name Of Literature; It Is Only A Facade. Such Literature Loses The Confidence Of Its Own People, And Its Published Works Are Used As Waste Paper Instead Of Being Read. -letter To The Fourth National Congress Of Soviet Writers

Some Are Bound To Die Young. By Dying Young A Person Stays Young In People's Memory. If He Burns Brightly Before He Dies, His Brightness Shines For All Time.

In Keeping Silent About Evil, In Burying It So Deep Within Us That No Sign Of It Appears On The Surface, We Are Implanting It, And It Will Rise Up A Thousandfold In The Future. When We Neither Punish Nor Reproach Evildoers . . . We Are Ripping The Foundations Of Justice From Beneath New Generations.

Any Man Who Has Once Proclaimed Violence As His Method Is Inevitably Forced To Take The Lie As His Principle.