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• “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.”

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.