To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all.

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In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.

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The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.

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Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.

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If one were to take the bible seriously one would go mad. But to take the bible seriously, one must be already mad.

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I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner.

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Part of the public horror of sexual irregularity so-called is due to the fact that everyone knows himself essentially guilty.

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Optimist

Kill off mankind,
And give the Earth a chance!
Nature might find
In her inheritance
The seedlings of a race
Less infinitely base.

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I can imagine myself on my death-bed, spent utterly with lust to touch the next world, like a boy asking for his first kiss from a woman.

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I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.

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