not this - the first item of business was to disabuse students of the naive notion that literature is about life, that books refer to reality, that they have something to do with experience
“I discovered that the world should be divided not into good and bad people but into cowards and non-cowards. Ninety-five percent of cowards are capable of the vilest things, lethal things, at the mildest threat.”
15. I realized that one can live on anger.
16. I realized that one can live on indifference.
35. I learned to “plan” my life one day ahead, no more.
44. I understood that moving from the condition of a prisoner to the condition of a free man is very difficult, almost impossible without a long period of amortization.