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“When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called Religion.”
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

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“Die Welt der Kunst & Fantasie ist die wahre, the rest is a nightmare.”
― Arno Schmidt

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“Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

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“Then I understood I would never marry him. It's funny how one thing can make you realize something like that. One can be ready to give up the children one always wanted, one can be ready to withstand remarks about one's past, or one's clothes, but then—a tiny remark and the soul deflates and says: Oh.”
― Elizabeth Strout, My Name Is Lucy Barton

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“And she said that her job as a writer of fiction was to report on the human condition, to tell us who we are and what we think and what we do.”
― Elizabeth Strout, My Name Is Lucy Barton

tags: humanity, writing

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