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If they will not understand that we are bringing them a mathematically faultless happiness, our duty will be to force them to be happy.
But, dear readers, you must think, at least a little. It helps.
when human beings still lived in the state of freedom, that is, in an unorganized primitive state.
an ancient sage once said a clever thing (accidentally, beyond doubt).
The denominator of the fraction of happiness is reduced to zero and the whole fraction is thus converted into a magnificent infiniteness.
Her voice came from there, from inside, from behind the dark window eyes, where the fireplace was blazing.
for freedom and crime are as closely related as—well, as the movement of an aero and its speed: if the speed of an aero equals zero, the aero is motionless; if human liberty is equal to zero, man does not commit any crime.
The way to rid man of criminality is to rid him of freedom.
It never occurred to me before but it is true: we who live on the earth, we are always walking over a seething red sea of fire which is hidden in the womb of the earth.
(I still insist that that I of before is the real one; my I of late is, certainly, only an illness.)
Their lyre is the morning rubbing sound of the electric toothbrushes,
Book written in 1921, electric toothbrush was invented in 1954!!!
Did I not populate these pages, which only recently were white quadrangular deserts,
The greatness of the “Church of the United Flock” was known to them. They knew that resignation is virtue, and pride a vice; that “We” is from “God,” “I,” from the devil.
Everything is so novel, so novel it is like a rainstorm, and I am not big enough to embrace it all. I spread out the folds of my unif, my palms—and yet pailfuls splash past me and only drops can reach these pages.…
