We shall have to remove everything that strangles artistic and scientific creativeness.

Say, I am your sign: like as I have done, so shall it be done unto them: they shall remove and go into captivity.

Let whatever is going to happen to me happen. I'm expecting the worst for myself and I'm resigned to it.

Spring and summer 1942 was probably the worst period of internal terror in Slovakia. It was also the time of mass deportation of Slovak Jews to the extermination camps in Poland.

Many legitimate forms of ownership, mainly cooperative and communal, had not been used to any effective extent mainly because of the imposition of Stalinist restrictions.

Let whatever is going to happen to me happen. I'm expecting the worst for myself and I'm resigned to it.