man has an idea of a better world than this. But better does not mean different, it means unified… Religion or crime, every human endeavor in fact, finally obeys this unreasonable desire and claims to give life a form it does not have.

“When millions of people are starving, everyone is implicated.”

“وهكذا إن كانت هذه الأسطورة مأسوية، فلأن بطلها يدركها. وإلا ما الذي يعنيه ألمه، …”

“l'écrivain peut retrouver le sentiment d'une communauté vivante qui le justifie…”

“We need the sweet pain of anticipation to tell us we are really alive.”