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"At three in the morning the gaudy paint is off that old whore, the world, and she has no nose and a glass eye. Gaiety becomes hollow and brittle, as in Poe's castle surrounded by the Red Death. Horror is destroyed by boredom. Love is a dream."

"It is not that I was credulous, simply that I belived in all things dark and dangerous. It was part of my young creed that the night was full of ghosts and witches, hungry and flapping and dressed completely in black."

"Throughout the evolution of mankind our very much primordial ancestors had one thing in common, it was ignorance. This ignorance gave birth to fear. Fear of the unknown became a quintessential element of their daily survival. To ace the intensity of the fear, rituals of worship arose."

"The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead."
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"Would I lay down my life to save my brother? No, but I would to save two brothers or eight cousins."


"We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve."


"In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better."


"The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements of ultimate fact but as art-forms."


"There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god."


"It is my supposition that the Universe in not only queerer than we imagine, is queerer than we can imagine."


"I have never yet met a healthy person who worried very much about his health, or a really good person who worried much about his own soul."


"Until politics are a branch of science we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium."
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