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"I gave in, and admitted that God was God."
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"There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, "All right, then, have it your way.""
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"Without the Mind, there is no God. Without you, there is no God."
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"God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal."
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"To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him."
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"I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability."
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"An omnipotent God is the only being with no reason to lie."
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"God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with."
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"God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses."
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"God's angels often protect his servants from potential enemies."
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"What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy."
Power

"In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss."
History

"A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep."
Work

"Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one."
Act

"Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations."
Nature

"Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory."
Fight

"I used to say, 'There is a God-shaped hole in me.' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important."
Time

"I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in."
God

"Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century."
Being

"Nothing is forever, he thought beyond closed eyelids somewhere over Asia Minor. Maybe unhappiness is the continuum through which a human life moves, and joy just a series of blips, of islands in the stream. Or if not unhappiness, then at least melancholy."
Emotion
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