Din eskiden şiirseldi. Ancak baskılar altında nesre dönüştü. Bilimle aynı boks ringine girdiğini düşündü ve tanınmaz hale geldi. - Theodore Zeldin

The temptation before 1933 was to believe in Hitler as a savior, to believe in a national rebirth. The path to National Socialism led through a wasteland of personal fears, collective anxiety, and resentments. The temptation was to surrender oneself to a dictator, to believe in a miracle. Hitler evoked human will and divine providence. The religious-mystical element in National Socialism was uncannily appealing to unpolitical people, to unrealistic people at odds with their world and accustomed perhaps to the dream of heroic irrationalism. The temptation was to abandon oneself to national delirium— despite (or even because of) the threat of violence.

Numai atunci cand vor invata sa dialogheze oamenii vor incepe sa fie egali.

...literature must always be about gloom of one sort or another, on the principal that there is nothing interesting to be said about happy people.