Martin Svoboda

“I don't care if I fall as long as someone else picks up my gun and keeps on shooting.”

“The first duty of a revolutionary is to be educated.”

“There is only one tragedy in the end, not to have been a saint.”

“Suffering passes, but the fact of having suffered never passes.”

“I am firmly convinced that Spain is the strongest country of the world. Century after century trying to destroy herself and still no success”

“There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.”

“Everything we are is at every moment alive in us.”

“If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.”

“Clouds come floating into my life from other days no longer to shed rain or usher storm but to give colour to my sunset sky.”

“The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.”

“Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.”

“I drink to make other people more interesting.”

“The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior 'righteous indignation' — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.”

“Always be a poet, even in prose.”

“I'm not lost for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost.”

“Classes will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity.”

“The meaning of life is to give life meaning.”

“Economics is just like managing your household.”

“We will stand on principle, or we will not stand at all.”