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.

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You're in a bad way! Apparently, you have developed a soul.

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

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Explosions are not comfortable.

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

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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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You're in bad shape. It looks like you're developing a soul.

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

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