Destroy him as you will, the bourgeois always bounces up - execute him, expropriate him, starve him out en masse, and he reappears in your children.

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

He reduced everything to politics; he was also unalterably of the Left. His line may have been unpopular or unfashionable, but he followed it unhesitatingly; i…

I greet you, my educated fellow bourgeois, whose interests and whose doubts I share.