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"You could just as well say that an agnostic is a deeply religious person with at least a rudimentary knowledge of human fallibility."

"God has forgiven and still forgives us when we repent from our sins, an indication that we are not called to sin, but to live in accordance with His will."

"Pious people spoke to God, and crazy people imagined that God spoke back."
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"It's the misfortune of German authors that not a single one of them dares to expose his true character. Everyone thinks that he has to be better than he is."

"You even called me stupid in your verse, and I'm almost agreeing, for where stupidity is involved, you are quite an expert, friend."

"No one will stop to help you when you are in need, but everyone forces opinions upon you that you do not require."

"Ideas are not thoughts; the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself."

"Before passing different laws for different people, I'd relinquish myself unto you as your slave."

"Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates."

"When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience."
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