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"Of course you don't believe in fairies. You're fifteen. You think I believed in fairies at fifteen? Took me until I was at least a hundred and forty. Hundred and fifty, maybe. Anyway, he wasn't a fairy. He was a librarian. All right?"
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"Any thought sequence that minimizes anxiety would get reinforced over time. The sequence would be maintained during the person's development and would be provoked in contexts where refutation of the belief might occur. So, any kind of refutation of a person's religious beliefs makes the beliefs only stronger."
"Whatever may be the position of science, whatever may be the position of philosophy, as long as there is such a thing as death in the world, as long as there is such a thing as weakness in the human heart, as long as the human heart sheds a drop of tear in weakness, there shall be a faith in God and divinity."
"Everything is energy, and energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be changed or mutated from one form to another."
"The entire world is surviving only due to 'beliefs', not because of 'Knowledge' (Gnan). Every human being is (living) only because of beliefs."
"If one is destined to go wrong, he will not believe the truth but will believe something else altogether."
"The whole world is immersed in 'wrong belief'. Even though 'belief' is wrong, one truly believes it is his own, doesn't he? He believes it to be completely true, doesn't he?"
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"Perhaps it was an afterimage, I decided, or a ghost: something that had stirred in my mind, for a moment, so powerfully that I believed it to be real, but now was gone, and faded into the past like a memory forgotten, or a shadow into the dusk."
"Different people remember things differently, and you'll not get any two people to remember anything the same, whether they were there or not. You stand two of you lot next to each other, and you could be continents away for all it means anything."
"I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled."
"Hasn't there always been a moon?""Bless you. Not in the slightest. I remember the day the moon came. We looked up in the sky--it was all dirty brown and sooty gray here then, not green and blue..."
"I'm writing. The pages are starting to stack up. My morale is improving the more I feel like a writer."
"If there is a moral to this part of the story, and I distrust morals in the same way that I distrust beginnings, it is simply this: know that with which you deal."
"Loki was trying to look serious, but even so, he was smiling at the corners of his mouth. It was not a reassuring smile."
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