The Real Test Of A Man Is

The Deeper The Experience Of An Absence Of Meaning - In Other Words, Of Absurdity - The More Energetically Meaning Is Sought.

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.

It's Not True That You Should First Think Up An Idea For A Better World And Only Then "put It Into Practice," But, Rather, Through The Fact Of Your Existence In The World, You Create The Idea Or Manifest It - Create It, As It Were, From The "material Of The World," Articulate It In The "language Of The World."

Hope Is Definitely Not The Same Thing As Optimism. It Is Not The Conviction That Something Will Turn Out Well, But The Certainty That Something Makes Sense, Regardless Of How It Turns Out.

The Attempt To Devote Oneself To Literature Alone Is A Most Deceptive Thing, And ... Often, Paradoxically, It Is Literature That Suffers For It.