I lived and languished.

I have a trend of my own.

Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.

Without truth I feel ashamed to be alive.

A man who's never seen war is like a woman who's never given birth - soft in the head.

The working class is my home country, and my future is linked with the proletariat.

I want my word to be up to the scale of the feat of arms performed by the Russian soldier.

If kids can forget their own mothers but still have a sense of comrade Lenin, then Soviet power really is here to stay!

What if we all suddenly get carried away thinking - who will be left to act?

My body gets weak without truth.

We can't feel anything - all that's left inside us is dust.

I am wishing of a memory, where you gave me everything you hadand where I offered you the pieces that were leftof me.

I returned to my existence, the existence I had chosen instead of you.

it is contrary to our natural logic that God would choose to use the foolish and the weak to show himself to be wise. We have difficulty seeing how God is praised through our insufficiencies

I think all art is, by nature, intended to motivate society for change, and the only reason change doesn't happen is because within the target population, courage is lacking.

After all, as long as you know, why make when you can take?

Santiago Nasar had often told me that the smell of closed-in flowers had an immediate relation to death for him.

You never know what you'll want to write until it starts writing itself in your head.

We do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand the heart of another, though it is the task of our life to try.

Sovereign of beauty, like the spray she grows;Compass'd she is with thorns and canker'd bower.Yet, were she willing to be pluck'd and worn,She would be gather'd, though she grew on thorn.