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What is it to you if I don't want others to want for me, if I want to want myself - if I want the impossible ...

Revolution is everywhere, in everything. There is no final revolution, no final number.

I've read and heard a lot of unbelievable stuff about those times when people lived in freedom
that is, in disorganized wildness.

To an artist, creating an image means being in love with it.

There is no final one; revolutions are infinite.

A point contains more unknowns than anything else; it need but stir, move, and it may turn into thousands of curves, thousands of bodies. I

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

An error is more useful than truth: truth is a thought suffering from arteriosclerosis.

But still, how could they write whole libraries about someone like Kant and hardly even notice Taylor-that prophet who could see ten centuries ahead?

The world is kept alive only by heretics: the heretic Christ, the heretic Copernicus, the heretic Tolstoy. Our symbol of faith is heresy. ("Tomorrow")

The mighty power of logic cleanses all it touches.

Those two, in paradise, were given a choice: happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative ...

The old, slow, creaking descriptions are a thing of the past; today the rule is brevity - but every word must be supercharged, high-voltage.

There is no joy nobler than suffering for the sake of love for man.

And how can there be a final revolution? There is no final one. The number of revolutions is infinite.

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

I stopped and listened. But all I could hear was.. a kind of thudding, and not in me but somewhere near me ... my heart.

bliss and envy are the numerator and denominator of the fraction known as happiness?

The most effective way of destroying art is the canonization of one given form. And one philosophy.

And what if you don't wait? You just drive over the edge yourself? Wouldn't that be the only right thing to do, the one that would solve everything?

The whole world is one immense woman, and we are in her very womb, we are not yet born, we are joyfully ripening.

Explosions are not comfortable.

A human being is like a novel: until the last page you don't know how it will end. Or it wouldn't be worth reading.

A person is like a novel: Up to the very last page you don't know how it's going to end. Otherwise, there'd be no point in reading ...

It is not your fault; you are ill. And the name of your illness is: FANCY.

We have long become overgrown with calluses; we no longer hear people being killed. ("X")

Revolutions are infinite.

Along the blade of a knife lies the path of paradox - the single most worthy path of the fearless mind ...

And I learned from my own experience that laughter was the most potent weapon: laughter can kill everything.

Is it not clear, however, that bliss and envy are the numerator and denominator of the fraction called happiness?

Besides, I can't, I no longer have the strength to destroy this painful piece of myself, which might turn out to be the piece I value most.

The most agonising thing is to drop doubt into a man about his being a reality, three-dimensional - and not some other kind of reality.

there should be no love just because, but only 'love because of.

The microspeed of the tongue ought to be always slightly less than the microspeed of the thoughts and certainly not ever the reverse.

Here I saw, with my own eyes, that laughter was the most terrible weapon: you can kill anything with laughter - even murder itself.

Imagine yourself standing on a shore: waves rhythmically rising, rising, and then suddenly they stay there, they set, they freeze.

To reflect the entire spectrum, the dynamics of the adventure novel must be invested with a philosophic synthesis of one kind or another.

Dogma, static positions, consonance - all these are obstacles to catching the disease of art, at least in its more complex forms.

Heretics are the only [bitter] remedy against the entropy of human thought.
("Literature, Revolution, and Entropy")

Her smile was a bite, and I was its target.

... the natural course from nullity to grandeur is to forget that you are a gramme and to feel that you are a millionth part of a ton.

The ancient God created the old man, capable of erring
thus he erred himself.

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

The nights were long, like the braids of a pretty girl, and the days were short, like a girl's sense. ("The North")

The whole of life, in all its complexity and beauty, has been etched into the gold of words.

The art of the word is painting + architecture + music.

The government (or humanity) would not permit capital punishment for one man, but they permitted the murder of millions a little at a time.

How awful for you! By the looks of it, you've developed a soul.

All women are lips, nothing but lips.

A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't even be worth reading.

The purpose of art ... is not to reflect life but to organize it, to build it.

All of life in its complexity and beauty is forever minted in the gold of words.

Love and hunger rule the world. Ergo, to rule the world, one must master love and hunger.

And everyone must lose his mind, everyone must! The sooner the better! It is essential - I know it.

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

All truths are erroneous. This is the very essence of the dialectical process: today's truths become errors tomorrow; there is no final number.

Every genuine poet is necessarily a Columbus. America existed for centuries before Columbus but it was only Columbus who was able to track it down.

Everyone has to go mad, it's essential fir everyone to go mad - as soon as possible! It's essential - I know.

We comes from God, I from the Devil.

During the first firing a dozen or so numbers from the dock neglected to get out of the way - nothing remained of them except some crumbs and soot.

The speed of a tongue should always go some seconds behind the speed of thought, never the other way around.

Shutting my eyes, I dreamed in formulas.

The inner world: those spiritual apartments to which we are reluctant to admit strangers.

Everything used to revolve around the sun; now I knew it all revolved around me-slowly, blissfully, squinting its eyes.

And what is strangest of all, most unnatural of all, is that the finger hasn't got the slightest desire to be on the hand, to be with the others;

Knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith

Literature is painting, architecture, and music.

There were two in paradise and the choice was offered to them: happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness.

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.

She was like a candle that just went out. All the circles that made her up suddenly got lopsided and warped.

My dear, you are a mathematician. You're even more, you're a philosopher of mathematics. So do this for me: Tell me the final number.

The moon hangs alien, heavy, like a lock on a door; the door is tightly shut. ("The North")

If we have no heretics we must invent them, for heresy is essential to health and growth.

Now I no longer live in our clear, rational world; I live in the ancient nightmare world, the world of square roots of minus one.

I prefer being wrong in my own way to being right in someone else's.

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

Sentences of the court on moral issues are always passed in absentia.

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

Final things are for children, because infinity scares children, and it is important that children sleep peacefully at night.

It is not possible to build on negative emotions. Genuine literature will come only when we replace hatred for man with love for man.