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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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There is an excellent way to make predictions without the slightest risk of error: predict the past.
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?
We need writers who fear nothing. ("Our Goal")
True literature can exist only where it is created, not by diligent and trustworthy functionaries, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and skeptics.
Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.
Knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith.
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.
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.
There is no final one; revolutions are infinite.
Crossing out is an art that is, perhaps, even more difficult than writing. It requires the sharpest eye to decide what is superfluous and must be removed. And it requires ruthlessness toward yourself -- the greatest ruthlessness and self-sacrifice. You must know how to sacrifice parts in the name of the whole.
