And this was the end of my first friendship with one of that innumerable company of people who are foreigners in their own country, but who are in reality its finest sons....

Modern jazz: Variations on a non-existent theme

However low he may fall, a man can never deny himself the delight of feeling cleverer, more powerful or even better fed than his companions.

The intelligentsia ...was kept busy embroidering white stitches on the philosophical and ecclesiastical vestments of the bourgeoisie - that old and filthy fabric besmeared with the blood of toiling masses.

In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

Every new time will give its law.