“New ideas are always resisted.”

“There will always be new opposites, class struggles and uprisings. History has no ending.”

“Among all the nonsense, mistakes, and bad ideas we come up with, maybe some truth will sneak in.”

“There’s always an end. But the end is always the beginning of something else. The periods we write into our lives are always provisional, in one way or another.”

“The evil always comes from details.”

“People always leave traces. No person is without a shadow.”

“Poverty always looks the same, no matter where you come across it. The rich can always express their opulence by varying their lives. Different houses, clothes, cars. Or thoughts, dreams. But for the poor there is nothing but compulsory grayness, the only form of expression available to poverty.”