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It is an error to divide people into the living and the dead: there are people who are dead-alive, and people who are alive-alive. The dead-alive also write, walk, speak, act. But they make no mistakes; only machines make no mistakes, and they produce only dead things. The alive-alive are constantly in error, in search, in questions, in torment.
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The most agonising thing is to drop doubt into a man about his being a reality, three-dimensional - and not some other kind of reality.
Children are the only brave philosophers. And brave philosophers are, inevitably, children.
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.
You're in bad shape. It looks like you're developing a soul.
We need writers who fear nothing. ("Our Goal")
If we have no heretics we must invent them, for heresy is essential to health and growth.
You're in a bad way! Apparently, you have developed a soul.
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Explosions are not comfortable.
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