This is the generation whose first cry of life was the Hungarian uprising.

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Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.

Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.

For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.

For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.

Bad literature is a form of treason.

Bad literature is a form of treason.

Life is a game with many rules but no referee. One learns how to play...

Life is a game with many rules but no referee. One learns how to play...

Snobbery? But it's only a form of despair.

Snobbery? But it's only a form of despair.

Who included me among the ranks of the human race?

Who included me among the ranks of the human race?

Twentieth-century Russian literature has produced nothing special except perhaps one novel and two stories by...

Twentieth-century Russian literature has produced nothing special except perhaps one novel and two stories by...

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Bad literature is a form of treason.

Bad literature is a form of treason.

I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of...

I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of...

Man is what he reads.

Man is what he reads.

Life - the way it really is - is a battle not between Bad and...

Life - the way it really is - is a battle not between Bad and...

The poetic notion of infinity is far greater than that which is sponsored by any...

The poetic notion of infinity is far greater than that which is sponsored by any...

Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production.

Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production.

Life, the way it really is, is a battle not between Bad and Good but...

Life, the way it really is, is a battle not between Bad and Good but...

For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.

For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.

The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie.

The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie.

For the poet the credo or doctrine is not the point of arrival but is,...

For the poet the credo or doctrine is not the point of arrival but is,...

A language is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state.

A language is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state.

It would be enough for me to have the system of a jury of twelve...

It would be enough for me to have the system of a jury of twelve...