Lying Can Never Save Us From Another

If By Believing You Mean Praying To An Anthropomorphic Deity Who Created The World And Half Controls It And Half Observes It, Then I Am Probably Not A Believer. But If You Mean That It Is Not All Accidental, That There Is A Mystery To Existence, A Deeper Meaning, That I Do Believe In.

Let Us Admit That Most Of Us Writers Feel An Essential Aversion To Politics. By Taking Such A Position, However, We Accept The Perverted Principle Of Specialization, According To Which Some Are Paid To Write About The Horrors Of The World And Human Responsibility And Others To Deal With Those Horrors And Bear The Human Responsibility For Them.

Human Rights Are Universal And Indivisible. Human Freedom Is Also Indivisible: If It Is Denied To Anyone In The World, It Is Therefore Denied, Indirectly, To All People. This Is Why We Cannot Remain Silent In The Face Of Evil Or Violence; Silence Merely Encourages Them.

You Do Not Become A ''dissident'' Just Because You Decide One Day To Take Up This Most Unusual Career. You Are Thrown Into It By Your Personal Sense Of Responsibility, Combined With A Complex Set Of External Circumstances. You Are Cast Out Of The Existing Structures And Placed In A Position Of Conflict With Them. It Begins As An Attempt To Do Your Work Well, And Ends With Being Branded An Enemy Of Society.

But If I Were To Say Who Influenced Me Most, Then I'd Say Franz Kafka. And His Works Were Always Anchored In The Central European Region.