The concept of progress is inseparable from the concept of catastrophe.

我不想成为英雄。我想成为一个人。

——〈在东京对同志的声言〉，1915年10月25日

The novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether. But the novel is the one bright book of life.

The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.

生而贫穷是意外，但死于贫穷是选择。