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"No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide."
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"As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning."
"Behind every effect there is a cause. You can never eliminate an effect without first understanding its cause."
"It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it."
"Nothing guarantees that reasonable people will agree about everything, of course, but the unreasonable are certain to be divided by their dogmas. It is time we recognized that this spirit of mutual inquiry, which is the foundation of all real science, is the very antithesis of religious faith."
"Religion is a distraction from true education."
"The power of reason is thought small in these days, but I remain an unrepentant rationalist. Reason may be a small force, but it is constant, and works always in one direction, while the forces of unreason destroy one another in futile strife. Therefore every orgy of unreason in the end strengthens the friends of reason, and shows afresh that they are the only true friends of humanity."
"It is not what the man of science believes that distinguishes him, but how and why he believes it. His beliefs are tentative, not dogmatic; they are based on evidence, not on authority or intuition."
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"One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better."
"One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness."
"Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances."
"Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce."
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