Under totalitarianism, silence is also a form of resistance.
Literature is a form of resistance, a weapon against injustice and oppression.
"The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion."
"Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future."
The best way to predict the future is to create it.