Maddy

“Ascend skyward forever and forever,–yet thou wilt not attain the summit. Descend below the earth for billions of billions of centuries: never wilt thou reach the bottom. For there is no summit, there is no bottom; there is no Above, no Below – there is no end.”
― Gustave Flaubert, The Temptation of St. Antony

“Shake the vermin from thy rags! Rise up from thy filth! Thy god is not a moloch who demands human flesh in sacrifice!”
― Gustave Flaubert, The Temptation of St. Antony

“That is but the device of the devil to seduce the faithful more easily. He attacks the strong through the mind, the weak through the flesh.”
― Gustave Flaubert, The Temptation of St. Antony

“We obtain merit only by our thirst for truth.”
― Gustave Flaubert, The Temptation of St. Antony