The true artist does not create for fame, but for the sheer joy of creation.
The first fruit of this imagination - and the first lesson of the social science that embodies it - is the idea that the individual can understand his own experience and gauge his own fate only by locating himself within his period, that he can know his own chances in life only by becoming aware of those of all individuals in his circumstances.
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.