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"I still held fast to my determination to become a minister; it still seemed to me that that was my duty. I had pledged myself, in my prayers I had given my word to God. How could I therefore break my vow?"

"At a certain stage in his evolution, man himself had been able to lay hold upon a higher order of things, which raised him above the level of the beasts that perish, and enabled him to see, at least in the distance, the shining towers of the City of God."

"Tell me who is able to keep his bed chaste, or which goddess is able to live with one god alone?"
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"The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us."

"The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds."

"The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best."

"Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business."

"A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him of ideas."

"War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other."
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