"Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to believe in a certain way, and can't really get rid of it."

Belief, Culture, Humanity, Thinking

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"Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to believe in a certain way, and can't really get rid of it."

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"What you believe and hold close to your heart, you will become."

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"You couldn't get a decent drink in either of them, for a start. And the boredom you got in Heaven was almost as bad as the excitement you got in Hell."

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"If God rewards us on earth for good deeds-the Old Testament suggests it's so, and the Puritans certainly believed it-then maybe Satan rewards us for evil ones."

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"And grief still feels like fear. Perhaps, more strictly, like suspense. Or like waiting; just hanging about waiting for something to happen. It gives life a permanently provisional feeling. It doesn't seem worth starting anything. I can't settle down. I yawn, fidget, I smoke too much. Up till this I always had too little time. Now there is nothing but time. Almost pure time, empty successiveness."

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