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“To live in the world without becoming aware of the meaning of the world is like wandering about in a great library without touching the books.”
― The Lost Symbol
― The Lost Symbol
“Darkness feeds on apathy.”
― The Lost Symbol
― The Lost Symbol
“It’s bad enough . . . when a country gets colonized, but when the people do as well! That’s the end, really, that’s the end.”
― Nervous Conditions
― Nervous Conditions
“In fact, "atheism" is a term that should not even exist. No one ever needs to identify himself as a "non-astrologer" or a "non-alchemist." We do not have words for people who doubt that Elvis is still alive or that aliens have traversed the galaxy only to molest ranchers and their cattle. Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make in the presence of unjustified religious beliefs.”
― Letter to a Christian Nation
― Letter to a Christian Nation
“I am not a smart man, particularly, but one day, at long last, I stumbled from the dark woods of my own, and my family's, and my country's past, holding in my hands these truths: that love grows from the rich loam of forgiveness; that mongrels make good dogs; that the evidence of God exists in the roundness of things. This much, at least, I've figured out. I know this much is true.”
― I Know This Much Is True
― I Know This Much Is True
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