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Patti Smith

"Perhaps priest and magician were once one, but the priest, learning humility in the face of God, discarded the spell for prayer."

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"Perhaps priest and magician were once one, but the priest, learning humility in the face of God, discarded the spell for prayer."

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"Rather than feeling lost and unimportant and meaningless, set against galaxies which go beyond the reach of the furthest telescopes, I feel that my life has meaning. Perhaps I should feel insignificant, but instead I feel a soaring in my heart that the God who could create all this - and out of nothing - can still count the hairs of my head."

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"The atheism and nihilism of my earlier years now seems shallow, and even a bit cocky."

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"Though man needs to live to believe, he does not need to believe to live."

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"You don't so much as become an atheist as find out that's what you are. There's no moment of conversion. You don't suddenly think 'I don't believe this anymore.' You essentially find you don't believe it."

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"Shallan's mental image of Jasnah Kholin was of someone almost divine. It was, upon reflection, an odd way to regard a determined atheist."

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"Never confuse belief with knowledge."

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"Most people believe most of the things they believe only because they believe that most people believe them."

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"Mother Nature created God as a neurological anti-depressant sentiment, but Man tore that God apart into pieces and made citadels of differentiation out of them."

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"When you allow your mind to ONLY have positive thoughts towards your desired outcome you are saying to the Universe that you are devoted to manifesting your dream."

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"It is one thing to believe and another to know."

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"I preferred an artist who transformed his time, not mirrored it."

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"It was like being at an Arabian hoedown with a band of psychedelic hillbillies (p. 171)."

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"I'm not afraid of terrorism at all. I'm afraid of loss of our freedom, loss of mobility, loss of global comradeship."

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"Secretly I knew I had been transformed, moved by the revelation that human beings create art, that to be an artist was to see what others could not."

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"We imagined ourselves as the Sons of Liberty with a mission to preserve, protect, and project the revolutionary spirit of rock and roll. We feared that the music which had given us sustenance was in danger of spiritual starvation. We feared it losing its sense of purpose, we feared it falling into fattened hands, we feared it floundering in a mire of spectacle, finance, and vapid technical complexity."

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"He picks the lock of her dreams with her own hairpin."

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"I didn't love Jim Morrison 'cause he was self-destructive. I loved him because of his work. Because of the way he merged poetry and rock-and-roll. Because he did something new."

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