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"It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones."
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"A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory."

"So this was the rest of his life. It felt like a party to which he'd been invited, but at an address he couldn't actually locate. Someone must be having fun at it, this life of his; only, right at the moment, it wasn't him."

"When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of."

"The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time."

"I knew there were no ghosts in there, but on the other hand, what if there were?"
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"For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion."

"Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you - you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside."

"Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence. Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle."

"The name of "reform" simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage."

"Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter its forms in relation to the consciousness of modern man."
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