Our Government Declared That It Is Conducting

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.

When I Was Young, The Early Death Of My Father Cast A Shadow Over Me - And I Was Afraid To Die Before All My Literary Plans Came True. But Between 30 And 40 Years Of Age My Attitude To Death Became Quite Calm And Balanced. I Feel It Is A Natural, But No Means The Final, Milestone Of One's Existence.

Only The First Swath Cut By The Scythe Is Difficult.

A Work Of Art Contains Its Verification In Itself: Artificial, Strained Concepts Do Not Withstand The Test Of Being Turned Into Images; They Fall To Pieces, Turn Out To Be Sickly And Pale, Convince No One. Works Which Draw On Truth And Present It To Us In Live And Concentrated Form Grip Us, Compellingly Involve Us, And No One Ever, Not Even Ages Hence, Will Come Forth To Refute Them.

I Was Always Optimistic. And I Held To And Was Guided By My Views.