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"I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die."

"The word "belief" is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it - I don't need to believe it."

"As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning."

"No emotion is, in itself, a judgement; in that sense all emotions and sentiments are alogical. but they can be reasonable or unreasonable as they conform to Reason or fail to conform. The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it."

"If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason."

"It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into."
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"If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal nor the philosophical writings of Cicero."


"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "O Lord make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it."


"We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest."


"Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts."
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