User:Paroxysm~enwiktionary

paroxysm (n)

1. a sudden outburst of emotion or action

2.     a. a sudden attack, recurrence, or intensification of a disease.

       b. a spasm or fit; a convulsion.

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"Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only weapon against bad ideas is better ideas." (Griswold: New York Times)

"Whether he went on with the diary, or whether he did not go on with it, made no difference. The Thought Police would get him just the same. He had committed— would still have committed, even if he had never set pen to paper— the essential crime that contained all others in itself. Thoughtcrime, they called it. Thoughtcrime was not a thing that could be concealed for ever." (Orwell: Nineteen Eighty-Four)