“
Oh! quand j'aurais une langue de fer,
Toujours parlant jene pourrais suffire,
Mon cher lecteur, à te nombrer et dire
Combien de saints on rencontre en enfer.
...more
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― La Pucelle; Or, the Maid of Orléans: A Poem, in XXI Cantos. Volume 1 of 2.
― La Pucelle; Or, the Maid of Orléans: A Poem, in XXI Cantos. Volume 1 of 2.
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If therefore my work is negative, irreligious, atheistic, let it be remembered that atheism — at least in the sense of this work — is the secret of religion itself; that religion itself, not indeed on the surface, but fundamentally, not in intention or according to its own supposition, but in its heart, in its essence, believes in nothing else than the truth and divinity of human nature.
”
― Essence of Christianity
― Essence of Christianity
