“True literature can exist only when it is created, not by diligent and reliable officials, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels and skeptics.”
“I turned. She was in a light, saffron-yellow dress of the ancient model. This was a thousand times more cruel than if she had worn nothing.”
“At night numbers must sleep; it is their duty, just as it is their duty to work in the daytime. Not sleeping at night is a criminal offense.”
“Knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith.”
“Those two, in paradise, were given a choice: happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative.”
“The ancient God created the old man, capable of erring — thus he erred himself.”
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