He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.

"The unexamined life is not worth living."

Dictatorships breed bad literature because they breed fear and conformity.

我为我所信仰的东西挺身而出，我不会退缩。