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

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There is an excellent way to make predictions without the slightest risk of error: predict the past.

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

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

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

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We need writers who fear nothing. ("Our Goal")

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