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Knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith.

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Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.

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All of life in its complexity and beauty is forever minted in the gold of words.

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The ancient God created the old man, capable of erring — thus he erred himself.

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Love and hunger rule the world. Ergo, to rule the world, one must master love and hunger.

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Children are the only brave philosophers. And brave philosophers are, inevitably, children.

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Along the blade of a knife lies the path of paradox—the single most worthy path of the fearless mind....

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The whole world is one immense woman, and we are in her very womb, we are not yet born, we are joyfully ripening.

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Here I saw, with my own eyes, that laughter was the most terrible weapon: you can kill anything with laughter - even murder itself.

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I've read and heard a lot of unbelievable stuff about those times when people lived in freedom -- that is, in disorganized wildness.

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There are no more fortunate and happy people than those who live according to the correct, eternal laws of the multiplication table.

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Those two, in paradise, were given a choice: happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative.

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The microspeed of the tongue ought to be always slightly less than the microspeed of the thoughts and certainly not ever the reverse.

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I turned. She was in a light, saffron-yellow dress of the ancient model. This was a thousand times more cruel than if she had worn nothing.

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At night numbers must sleep; it is their duty, just as it is their duty to work in the daytime. Not sleeping at night is a criminal offense.

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Every genuine poet is necessarily a Columbus. America existed for centuries before Columbus but it was only Columbus who was able to track it down.

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What primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about

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True literature can exist only where it is created, not by diligent and trustworthy functionaries, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and skeptics.

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There are books of the same chemical composition as dynamite. The only difference is that a piece of dynamite explodes once, whereas a book explodes a thousand times.

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The speed of her tongue is not correctly calculated; the speed per second of her toungue should be slightly less than the speed per second of her thoughts -at any rate not the reverse.

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