The most effective way of destroying art is the canonization of one given form. And one philosophy.
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Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.
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Literature is painting, architecture, and music.
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True literature can exist only where it is created, not by diligent and trustworthy functionaries, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and skeptics.
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knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith
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Happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative.
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