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"All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation."
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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."
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"Hard as it may sound, no god has saved anything or anyone in human history. It is the humans who have done so."
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"If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason."
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"If I had been born in the medieval times, my subjective union with God and the Universe would have evoked the rise of another Gnostic religion. But, by the grace of Mother Nature, I am born in an era of Science and Reasoning. Hence, I have dissected my own experience of Absolute Divinity as well as the experiences of all the religious giants in my works, in order to discover the physical truth underneath these apparently supernatural experiences."
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"When everybody worships all sort of religious lies and illogical myths, dare to be there, in the land of reason!"
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"He found insanity no excuse, however, for irrational behavior."
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"Modern man's besetting temptation is to sacrifice his direct perceptions and spontaneous feelings to his reasoned reflections to prefer in all circumstances the verdict of his intellect to that of his immediate intuitions."
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"Our moral traditions developed concurrently with our reason, not as its product."
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"Behind every effect there is a cause. You can never eliminate an effect without first understanding its cause."
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"There is some reason, obviously, that you are drawn to your material, but the way in which you explore it might come to be quite different from what you would expect."
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"There is no dream of love, however ideal it may be, which does not end up with a fat, greedy baby hanging from the breast."
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"Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste."
Beauty

"Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony."
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"I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust."
Society

"It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish."
Poetry

"It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself."
Work

"France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic."
Poetry

"Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art."
Art

"To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important thing."
Man

"It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree."
People
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