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“The atheist view is correspondingly life-affirming and life-enhancing, while at the same time never being tainted with self-delusion, wishful thinking, or the whingeing self-pity of those who feel that life owes them something.”
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion: A Study of Religious Belief and Skepticism

“There is no such thing as the last straw. There is only hay.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

“I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive. I am not young and I love life. But I should scorn to shiver with terror at the thought of annihilation. Happiness is nonetheless true happiness because it must come to an end, nor do thought and love lose their value because they are not everlasting. Many a man has borne himself proudly on the scaffold; surely the same pride should teach us to think truly about man’s place in the world. Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cosy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigour, and the great spaces have a splendour of their own.”
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

“The book is true, and if evidence seems to condtradict it, it is the evidence that must be thrown out not the book.”
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion: A Study of Religious Belief and Skepticism