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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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Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.
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?
Children are the only brave philosophers. And brave philosophers are, inevitably, children.
Those two, in paradise, were given a choice: happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative.
I prefer being wrong in my own way to being right in someone else's.
You're in bad shape. It looks like you're developing a soul.
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.
You're in a bad way! Apparently, you have developed a soul.
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.
