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If an atheist died, where would he go?

We have been perfectly willing (if not completely thrilled) to spend 200 plus on a hotel, 150 on homocidal septuagenarian baby-sitter, and 60 dollars on a lunch we couldn't taste. [...] But 45 dollars for an old book, not even a particularly book, was extravagance. It was wasteful. What would we tell our parents?

Nothing exists that so fills and binds the heart as love does.

"You really can’t get a certificate saying 'You’re a Writer Now.” - Phillip Lopate => http://www.advicetowriters.com/interv...

Only the powerful always know with great clarity who their true enemies are.

...young people seem to need sleep more than the old, who have already slept so much and are preparing to sleep for all eternity

Have you found any places where God would have felt at home?

How laughter was considered as heretic

Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do (p.97)

if memory is a gift of God, then the ability to forget can also be good, and must be respected...

...tidak ada korelasinya seorang yg kharismatik harus jago ngomong, karena orang yang jago ngomong belum tentu memiliki ide yang hebat.

The power of "what if"

Akhirnya ada juga cerita yang mudah dimengerti di buku ini :)

siapa yang peduli soal umur panjang, bukankah hidup semestinya pendek dan manis seperti bulan madu?

Cerita yang absurd dan susah dimengerti soal Lenin

Apa bagusnya laki-laki yang tidak setia? Lebih baik dia terbang menjauh saja dari istrinya, layaknya layang-layang...

Imagination, far from appearing as an accidental characteristic of consciousness, turns out to be an essential and transcendental condition of consciousness.

...sometimes orders given to the simple-minded have to be reinforced with a threat, a suggestion that something terrible will happen to the disobedient, perforce something supernatural.

Two emperors for a single throne and a single pope for two: a situation that, truly, fomented great disorder...

Dear publisher, I lost the story on page 40. The page is blank :'(

Museums might have the power to shed light on the darker secrets of an enigmatic event from the past...

I always disapproved of these [well-to-do] people, who saw their wealth not as a responsibility, but as something to cunningly take advantage of.

Peace, though beloved of our Lord, is a cardinal virtue only if your neighbors share your conscience

We are troubled by the abundance of rumors about where we come from, who we are, where we're going, and drew us.

Akan ada kehancuran buat setiap negeri yang tak pernah bisa menyimpulkan kebajikan atas sejarahnya sendiri.