There are books of the same chemical composition as dynamite. The only difference is that a piece of dynamite explodes once, whereas a book explodes a thousand times.

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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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There is no final one; revolutions are infinite.

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

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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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Children are the only brave philosophers. And brave philosophers are, inevitably, children.

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Knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith.

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We have lived through the epoch of suppression of the masses; we are living in an epoch of suppression of the individual in the name of the masses; tomorrow will bring the liberation of the individual - in the name of man.

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

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