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"God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal."
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"Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God."
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"God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best."
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"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him."
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"The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush."
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"It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance."
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"God's dice always have a lucky roll."
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"I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best."
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"You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements."
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"Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head."
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"Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory."
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"There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish."
Love

"Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death."
Death

"It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs."
Faith

"Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you."
God

"Science is a cemetery of dead ideas."
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"Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons."
Life

"Man dies of cold, not of darkness."
Darkness

"The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule."
People

"A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man."
Love
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