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God neither created us nor wished us to be created, but that we are the work of an inferior deity, a Demiurge, who wrongly believed himself to be God? Heavens, how probable it seems; and this overweening hubris has been handed on down to
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Gnosticism
“for those of us who feel deeply and who are at all conscious of the inextricable tangle of human thought there is only one response to be made — ironic tenderness and silence.”
― The Alexandria Quartet
― The Alexandria Quartet
“What do you believe? You never say anything. At the most you sometimes laugh.”
― Justine
― Justine
“I imagine, therefore I belong and am free”.’ Of”
― The Alexandria Quartet
― The Alexandria Quartet
“The Church condemns violence, but it condemns indifference more harshly. Violence can be the expression of love, indifference never. One is an imperfection of charity, the other the perfection of egoism.”
― The Comedians
― The Comedians
“Its designer had a gilt complex, and had tried every trick with gold paint, curly pillars and expensive drapes to make it look less like a ship and more like a boudoir that had collided with a highly suspicious type of theater.”
― Pyramids
― Pyramids
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