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"What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do."
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"How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god."
"The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible."
"What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do."
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"Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them."
"Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver."
"But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us."
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