“What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out, which is the exact opposite.”

― Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays

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“The highest flights of charity, devotion, trust, patience, bravery to which the wings of human nature have spread themselves have been flown for religious ideals.”

― William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience

“What freedom men and women could have, were they not constantly tricked and trapped and enslaved and tortured by their sexuality! The only drawback in that freedom is that without it one would not be a human. One would be a monster.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“But a lot of times, people die how they live. And so last words tell me a lot about who people were, and why they became the sort of people biographies get written about.”

― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable: I simply am not there.”

― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho

“Nothing you can do about it . . . No use struggling . . . One is what one is.”

― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

“Do you know how a man makes his way here? By brilliant genius or by skilful corruption. You must either cut your way through these masses of men like a cannon ball, or steal among them like a plague.”

― Honoré de Balzac, Father Goriot

“Don’t be too quick to draw conclusions from what happens to you; simply let it happen. Otherwise it will be too easy for you to look with blame (that is: morally) at your past, which naturally has a share in everything that now meets you.”

― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“Anger is uneasiness or discomposure of the mind, upon the receipt of any injury, with a present purpose of revenge.”

― John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

“Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more!Men were deceivers ever,One foot in sea, and one on shore;To one thing constant never.”

― William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

“Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.”

― Paulo Coelho, The Zahir

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