I am aware of myself. And, of course, the only things that are aware of themselves and conscious of their individuality are irritated eyes, cut fingers, sore teeth. A healthy eye, finger, tooth might as well not even be there. Isn't it clear that individual consciousness is just sickness?

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The only means of ridding man of crime is ridding him of freedom.

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A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't be worth reading.

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Knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith.

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Children are the boldest philosophers. They enter life naked, not covered by the smallest fig leaf of dogma, absolutes, creeds. This is why every question they ask is so absurdly naïve and so frighteningly complex.

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There is no final one; revolutions are infinite.

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I prefer being wrong in my own way to being right in someone else's.

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If we have no heretics we must invent them, for heresy is essential to health and growth.

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Explosions are not comfortable.

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Knowledge! What does that mean? Your knowledge is nothing but cowardice. No, really, that's all it is. You just want to put a little wall around infinity. And you're afraid to look on the other side of that wall.

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