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I always had a strong reluctance to hurt people, which is always the best way of hurting oneself.

Literature is greater than any of us, dammit.

...the most sacred right of a person is to refuse o be manipulated, handled, cheated, and then kicked in the ass---.

A writer's subconscious is one of the filthiest places there are: as a matter of fact, you can find the whole world there.

The trouble with hysteria is that it's contagious.

They thought I suffered from lack of exterior, when I suffered from excess of interior

All the same I keep on looking for someone incomprehensible who won't understand me either, because I have a terrible thirst for brotherhood

Gari in Russian means "burn!" ... I want to test myself, a trial by fire, so that my I is burned off.

Reality is not an inspiration for literature. At its best, literature is an inspiration for reality.

There is more to Jewish history than Auschwitz.

Men sometimes die much earlier than they are burried.

As long as you live, you hope. You think that everything will just ... get better.

Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.

I've had a lot of fun. Good-bye, and thank you.

Literature has always been the last refuge, in this world, for those who do not know where to lay their dreaming heads.

Some consciences are fitted with automatic answering machine that work very well. But I never got the technology under control

When a war is won, it's the losers, not the winners, who are liberated.

I don't consider myself to be definite, but in waiting position and eventual appearance

The only way to prove you are normal is to smash someone's face in

All men have a legend because of death. Humanity wasn't legendary any longer: it was a myth.

If the world can no longer afford the luxury of natural beauty, then it will soon be overcome and destroyed by its own ugliness.

I see History as a relay race in which one of us, before dropping in his tracks, must carry one stage further the challenge of being a man.

The avantgarde are people who don't exactly know where they want to go, but are the first to get there.

If there is something that opens horizons, it is precisely ignorance.

Loyalty is not the kind of exclusive deal, it's just a sincere communication and the same values.