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«On the contrary, I have nothing against God… of course, God’s merely a hypothesis… but… I confess that He’s necessary to maintain order… for world order and so forth… if He didn’t exist, one would have to invent him.”

I’m glad that my young man turned out to be less than rational at this critical moment, because a clever man will always return in time to reason, but if love doesn’t appear in a young man’s heart at such an exceptional moment, when will it occur?

- they will die in peace, will expire quietly in your name, and beyond the grave they will find nothing but death. But we shall keep the secret and for their own happiness attract them with promises of an eternal heavenly reward. Because if there really were anything in the other world, it would not be for people like them.”

“And everyone will be happy, all the millions of creatures, except for the 100K or so who are called upon to rule over them. Because only we, we who are the keepers of their secrets, only we will be unhappy. There will be millions of happy children, and a 100K sufferers who have taken I. Themselves the curse of the knowledge of good and evil. -

“But even in this you estimated man too highly. Because all men are, of course, nothing but slaves, even though they were created as rebels. Look around and judge for yourself (…), is there anyone at all you have raised up to your level? I give you my word that man is created weaker and biker than you imagined!”