By the way, unrhetorically speaking

Talk You’re a brave man, they tell me.        I’m not. Courage has never been my quality. Only I thought it disproportionate so to degrade myself as others did. No foundations trembled. My voice no more than laughed at pompous falsity; I did no more than write, never denounced, I left out nothing I had thought about, defended who deserved it, put a brand on the untalented, the ersatz writers (doing what anyhow had to be done). And now they press to tell me that I’m brave. How sharply our children will be ashamed taking at last their vengeance for these horrors remembering how in so strange a time common integrity could look like courage. Yevgeny Aleksándrovich Yevtushenko, 1960 English translation by Robin Milner-Galland and Peter Levi

René Magritte, Decalcomania, 1966. Courtesy of WikiArt.