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Without Satan, with God only, how poor a universe, how trite a music!


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The universe now appeared to me as a void wherein floated rare flakes of snow, each flake a universe.

The universe now appeared to me as a void wherein floated rare flakes of snow, each flake a universe.



We have no government and no laws, if by law is meant a stereotyped convention supported by force, and not to be altered without the aid of cumbersome machinery.

We have no government and no laws, if by law is meant a stereotyped convention supported by force, and not to be altered without the aid of cumbersome machinery.



A nation . . . is just a society for hating foreigners.

A nation . . . is just a society for hating foreigners.



Even when all the worlds have frozen or exploded, and all the suns gone dead and cold, there'll still be time. Oh, God, what for?

Even when all the worlds have frozen or exploded, and all the suns gone dead and cold, there'll still be time. Oh, God, what for?



The expansion of the whole cosmos was but the shrinkage of all its physical units and of the wavelengths of light.

The expansion of the whole cosmos was but the shrinkage of all its physical units and of the wavelengths of light.



In you, humanity is precarious; and so, in dread and in shame, you kill the animal in you. And its slaughter poisons you.

In you, humanity is precarious; and so, in dread and in shame, you kill the animal in you. And its slaughter poisons you.



No visiting angel, or explorer from another planet, could have guessed that this bland orb [Earth] teemed with vermin, with world-mastering, self-torturing, incipiently angelic beasts.

No visiting angel, or explorer from another planet, could have guessed that this bland orb [Earth] teemed with vermin, with world-mastering, self-torturing, incipiently angelic beasts.



The creator, if he should love his creature, would be loving only a part of himself; but the creature, praising the creator, praises an infinity beyond himself.

The creator, if he should love his creature, would be loving only a part of himself; but the creature, praising the creator, praises an infinity beyond himself.



In fact man's career has been less like a mountain torrent hurtling from rock to rock, than a great sluggish river, broken very seldom by rapids.

In fact man's career has been less like a mountain torrent hurtling from rock to rock, than a great sluggish river, broken very seldom by rapids.



It is better to be destroyed than to triumph in slaying the spirit... We die praising the universe in which at least such an achievement as ours can be.

It is better to be destroyed than to triumph in slaying the spirit... We die praising the universe in which at least such an achievement as ours can be.





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Christians don’t the moral right to be indifferent

Christians don’t the moral right to be indifferent



If in our hearts we really don't believe that God loves us as we are, if we are still tainted by the lie that we can do something to make God love us more, we are rejecting the message of the cross.

If in our hearts we really don't believe that God loves us as we are, if we are still tainted by the lie that we can do something to make God love us more, we are rejecting the message of the cross.



Though you may feel that no one understand the depth of your despair, our savior, Jesus Christ, understands.

Though you may feel that no one understand the depth of your despair, our savior, Jesus Christ, understands.



Depression is like slashing at ghosts. Of course it's tempting to finally cut something real.

Depression is like slashing at ghosts. Of course it's tempting to finally cut something real.



Fear is such a weak emotion that’s why I despise it

Fear is such a weak emotion that’s why I despise it



I have nobody. I have surrounded myself with people who are fake just because I need to talk to somebody.

I have nobody. I have surrounded myself with people who are fake just because I need to talk to somebody.



I thought I had too much money to be happy and normal. Thousand of pounds is just too much for a working person to handle all of a sudden, and I felt I didnt deserve it.

I thought I had too much money to be happy and normal. Thousand of pounds is just too much for a working person to handle all of a sudden, and I felt I didnt deserve it.



Democrats never agree on anything, that's why they're Democrats. If they agreed with each other, they would be Republicans.

Democrats never agree on anything, that's why they're Democrats. If they agreed with each other, they would be Republicans.




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