Solving the Adversities

"Fabio, . . . Your many compatriots complain about my government because of its troop withdrawals from your country when the war was in full swing . . . So many of your country's people were gullible and utopian. The ones fought for the invaders; the others deranged the rear of your country. Their traitorous actions engendered misunderstandings that the majority of your people didn't want to fight . . . They were the causes of protestations in many countries including mine . . ."

"Wake, these compatriots condemn those traitors like they reproach your government . . . After the war they endured both physical and mental tortures. Miracles have happened because they haven't mental disorders . . . Let's them express something as catharses for them."

(From Heroes from the Unpopular War)

." . . After a half of a century, arrogance, lies, and trick have become an inherence of this regime that people must live with them. You'll see, some decades later, people of this country will live with the similar vileness . . ."

(From The Escape of the Woman from the Dirty Marsh)

"So many private properties of the people around the country have been confiscated, not only yours."

(From Contradictions)

." . . Many issues impelled him to write: a long and ferocious war of the past, nearly a half million of comrades-in-arms, former officials, artists, and intellectuals being cruelly treated in prisons or labor camps, his people writhing under the invaders' yoke, especially the traditional culture being replaced by sly, deceiving, inhuman, and reprobate ways of . . . lives."

(From Marriage for Help)