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"God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal."
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"Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God."
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"God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best."
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"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him."
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"It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance."
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"God's dice always have a lucky roll."
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"You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements."
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"Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head."
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"God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind."
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"A god implants in mortal guilt whenever he wants utterly to confound a house."
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"The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age."
Age
"No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible."
People
"Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another."
Experience
"Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud."
Fame
"To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?"
Man
"It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ."
Talent
"Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh."
Love
"Thousands have lived without love, not one without water."
Love
"Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods."
Relationship
"In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he must never, never be unfaithful to them."
Writing
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