Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability.

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Religion is still useful among the herd - that it helps their orderly conduct as nothing else could. The crude human animal is in-eradicably superstitious, and there is every biological reason why they should be. Take away his Christian god and saints, and he will worship something else...

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I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.

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I have seen the dark universe yawning Where the black planets roll without aim, Where they roll in their horror unheeded, Without knowledge, or lustre, or name.

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The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.

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To be bitter is to attribute intent and personality to the formless, infinite, unchanging and unchangeable void. We drift on a chartless, resistless sea. Let us sing when we can, and forget the rest..

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The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown

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Creative minds are uneven, and the best of fabrics have their dull spots.

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That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die.

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I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.

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