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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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If we have no heretics we must invent them, for heresy is essential to health and growth.
There is no final one; revolutions are infinite.
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.
You're in a bad way! Apparently, you have developed a soul.
We need writers who fear nothing. ("Our Goal")
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?
Explosions are not comfortable.
The only means of ridding man of crime is ridding him of freedom.
There is an excellent way to make predictions without the slightest risk of error: predict the past.
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.