“Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.”
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Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory.
It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God's heaven.
You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again.
A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
