We're not in a fairytale story. This is not a movie. Scriptwriters don't write our fates. We do.

May your sleep be your death, and your wakefulness be your heaven.

Growth of consciousness does not depend on the might of the intellect but on the conviction of the heart.

Art is inextricably tied to man's survival - not to his physical survival, but to that on which his physical survival depends: to the preservation and survival of his consciousness.

The more material we lose, the less we have. The less we have, the more we win.

I did not believe that a Cause which stood for a beautiful ideal, for anarchism, for release and freedom from convention and prejudice, should demand the denial of life and joy. I insisted that our Cause could not expect me to become a nun and that the movement would not be turned into a cloister. If it meant that, I did not want it.