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


Yevgeny Zamyatin

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BERNARD CORNWELL A virtuous heretic shall be saved before a wicked Christian
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