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"A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory."

"Her simplicity fathomed what clever people falsified."

"So this was the rest of his life. It felt like a party to which he'd been invited, but at an address he couldn't actually locate. Someone must be having fun at it, this life of his; only, right at the moment, it wasn't him."

"When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of."

"The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time."

"I knew there were no ghosts in there, but on the other hand, what if there were?"
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"The time has come to underscore the fact that our and others' rights are contingent on our willingness to assert and defend them."

"If we treasure our own experience and regard it as real, we must also treasure other people's experience."

"In the late 1950s a major topic under discussion was whether Canada should acquire nuclear weapons."

"The applause is a celebration not only of the actors but also of the audience. It constitutes a shared moment of delight."

"Individual scientists like myself - and many more conspicuous - pointed to the dangers of radioactive fallout over Canada if we were to launch nuclear weapons to intercept incoming bombers."
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