The Cell Door Slammed Behind Rubishov.

Adolescence Is A Kind Of Emotional Seasickness. Both Are Funny, But Only In Retrospect.

The Greatest Temptation For The Like Of Us Is: To Renounce Violence, To Repent, To Make Peace With Oneself. Most Revolutionaries Fell Before This Temptation, From Spartacus To Danton And Dostoevsky; They Are The Classical Form Of Betrayal Of The Cause. The Temptations Of God Were Always More Dangerous For Mankind Than Those Of Satan. As Long As Chaos Dominates The World, God Is An Anachronism; And Every Compromise With One’s Own Conscience Is Perfidy. When The Accursed Inner Voice Speaks To You, Hold Your Hands Over Your Ears….

One Should Either Write Ruthlessly What One Believes To Be The Truth, Or Else Shut Up.

History Knows No Scruples And No Hesitation. Inert And Unerring, She Flows Towards Her Goal. At Every Bend In Her Course She Leaves The Mud Which She Carries And The Corpses Of The Drowned.

The Fact Is: I No Longer Believe In My Own Infallibility. That Is Why I Am Lost.