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How had Diana defined hope once? The delusion of desire above expectation.
“Perhaps imagination is only intelligence having fun.”
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“The take-home message is that we should blame religion itself, not religious extremism - as though that were some kind of terrible perversion of real, decent religion. Voltaire got it right long ago: 'Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.' So did Bertrand Russell: 'Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do.”
― The God Delusion
― The God Delusion
“More generally, as I shall repeat in Chapter 8, one of the truly bad effects of religion is that it teaches us that it is a virtue to be satisfied with not understanding.”
― The God Delusion
― The God Delusion
“We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking.”
― The Myth of Sisyphus
― The Myth of Sisyphus
“Mila was kneeling before her, her focus devoted utterly to Cissie’s stockings and their agonisingly slow descent down her legs, deft fingers at her ankles carefully freeing her from her shoes. The gaze she turned on Cissie’s panties was unholy – and then Cissie was naked with just the breeze shivering across her skin.”
― Once in Berlin
― Once in Berlin
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