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 | "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless
enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as
though it had an underlying truth." | |
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Found in the topic World.
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| ""Then we are living in a place abandoned by God," I said,
disheartened. "Have you found any places where God would have felt at
home?" William asked me, looking down from his great height." | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "Today I realize that many recent exercises in "deconstructive
reading" read as if inspired by my parody. This is parody"s mission: it
must never be afraid of going too far. If its aim is true, it simply
heralds what others will later produce, unblushing, with impassive and
assertive gravity." | |
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Found in the topic Parody.
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| "What we honor as prudence in our elders is simply panic in
action." | |
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Found in the topic Prudent.
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| ""Sir," Saint-Savin replied, "the first quality of an honest man is
contempt for religion, which would have us afraid of the most natural
thing in the world, which is death; and would have us hate the one
beautiful thing destiny has given us, which is life. We should rather
aspire to a heaven where only the planets live in eternal bliss, receiving
neither rewards nor condemnations, but enjoying merely their own eternal
motion in the arms of the void."" | |
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Found in the topic Religion.
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