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You're obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you think absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and social conventions you despise, condemn, and know lack all foundation. It is that permanent contradiction between your ideas and desires and all the dead formalities and vain pretenses of your civilization which makes you sad, troubled and unbalanced. In that intolerable conflict you lose all joy of life and all feeling of personality, because at every moment they supress and restrain and check the free play of your powers. That's the poisoned and mortal wound of the civilized world.
-- Octave Mirbeau |
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To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes |
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Every woman is a rebel, and usually in a wild revolt against herself.
-- Oscar Wilde |
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To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled - because a right is a kind of power but they are too lazy or too cowardly to exercise it. The virtues which cloak these faults are called patience and forbearance.
-- Oscar Wilde |
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Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.
-- Oscar Wilde |
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I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
-- Oscar Wilde |
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It's useful that there should be Gods, so let's believe there are.
-- Ovid |
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The human mind treats a new idea the way the body treats a strange protein - it rejects it.
-- P. Medawar |
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Hell lives a life of its own, losing itself never from its existence, loving those whom it hurts, hurting those whom it loves.
-- Patrick A. Woodard |
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There is eloquence in screaming.
-- Patrick Jones |
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If a faithful account was rendered of Man's ideas upon divinity, he would be obliged to acknowledge that for the most part the word "Gods" has been used to express the concealed, remote, unknown causes of the effects he witnessed; that he applies this term when the spring of the natural, the source of known causes, ceases to be visible; As soon as he loses the thread of these causes, or as soon as his mind can no longer follow the chain, he solves the difficulty, terminates his research, by ascribing it to his Gods... When, therefore, he ascribes to his gods the production of some phenomenon... Does he, in fact, do anything more than substitute for the darkness of his own mind, a sound to which he has ben accustomed to listen with reverential awe?
-- Paul Dietrich |
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There is only one blasphemy, and that is the refusal to experience joy.
-- Paul Rudnick |
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What was God doing (in His Time) for an eternity into His past before He Created the Universe Ex Nihilo? God existed by Himself through an Eternity before the Creation without needing a Universe. Why did He suddenly desire to create the Universe?
-- Peter A. Angeles |
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It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries |
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Do you think in many ways, sir, you're the victim of circumstance now?
-- Peter Jennings, to Vice President Al Gore |
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