I am a person always full of contradictions... It was hard to choose whether to devote myself to revolution as a soldier or as a writer..

My pen is alight and my body aflame. Until both burn down to ash, my love and my hate will remain here in the world..

Only by not forgetting the past can we be the master of the future..

Nobody would say the cowshed was heaven and nobody would say the inhuman torture of so many victims be called a revolution of the proletariat. ... A ….

I have spent myself on all kinds of things ... I have advanced much politically but I have written little and moreover have written it badly..

I've lived on royalties all my life. It is the readers who have supported me..

I believe in the future a new Dante will write a new Divine Comedy..

I write just because the fire of my emotion is burning. Had I not, I would not have been able to find peace..

Before my eyes are many miserable scenes, the suffering of others and myself forces my hands to move. I become a machine for writing..

Victory is for them, not for us. We have not made profit out of our country's misfortune. Victory does not bring us luck..

You have your thoughts and I have mine. This is the fact and you can't change it even if you kill me..

Loving truth and living honestly is my attitude to life. Be true to yourself and be true to others, thus you can be the judge of your behavior..