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"The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts."
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"My first mistake is to humanize God. My second mistake is to hold those wretched human characteristics up against all of the majestic things that I sense God should be. The blatant discrepancy which is certain to ensue then allows me to not only justify my rejection of Him, it grants me unbridled permission to discount His existence altogether. And that third and final mistake is without a doubt the most costly of all."

"Doubters only doubt what they doubt."

"In the middle of the storm, the 'a' of the atheist drops!"

"But I listen to live recordings of things that I did back in the '70s and then how I've done things since. And there's no doubt about it: if I compare the two, it's like chalk and cheese."
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"Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution."

"I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly."

"It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs."

"Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry."

"One mustn't look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us."
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