The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.

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Art is an attempt to integrate evil. - Simone de Beauvoir

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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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One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion. - Simone de Beauvoir

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The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them. - Simone de Beauvoir

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Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand. ― Karl Marx

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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.― George Orwell

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Human beings, on the contrary, have a soul which lives forever, lives after the body has been turned to dust. It rises up through the clear, pure air beyond the glittering stars.

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Fiction is an ancient virtual reality technology that specializes in simulating human problems. - Jonathan Gottschall

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Plot is people. Human emotions and desires founded on the realities of life, working at cross purposes, getting hotter and fiercer as they strike against each other until finally there’s an explosion—that’s Plot. - Leigh Brackett

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