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.
Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.
The most effective way of destroying art is the canonization of one given form. And one philosophy.
Literature is painting, architecture, and music.
True literature can exist only where it is created, not by diligent and trustworthy functionaries, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and skeptics.
knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith
