“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.”
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It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.
I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever.
The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
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.
