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“And that was when I learned from my own experience that a laugh can be a terrifying weapon. With a laugh you can kill even murder itself.”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

“I'm not an easy guy to protect.
I don't need easy.”
― Alex London, Guardian

“Harmful literature is more useful than useful literature, for it is antientropic, it is a means of combating calcification. ...It is utopian, absurd. ...It is right 150 years later.'

-from 'On Literature, Revolution, Entropy and Other Matters' as read in the introduction to Mirra Ginsburg's translation of 'We.”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

“It's good to realize that within us there is someone who knows everything, wills everything, does everything better than we ourselves.”
― Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend