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.

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Knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith.

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There is an excellent way to make predictions without the slightest risk of error: predict the past.

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

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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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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.

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

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There is no final one; revolutions are infinite.

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