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“You don’t question Providence. If you can’t have the reality, a dream is just as good. Perhaps I’m not their dead one back, but I’m something almost better to them; an ideal shaped by their minds.”
— Dec 01, 2023 07:20AM
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“We lost our faith and went around wondering what life was for. If art was no more than a frustrated outflinging of desire, if religion was no more than self-delusion, what good was life? Faith had always given us answers to all things. But it all went down the drain with Freud and Darwin. We were and still are a lost people.”
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“Anything that’s strange is no good to the average American. If it doesn’t have Chicago plumbing, it’s nonsense.”
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“It is good to renew one’s wonder,” said the philosopher. “Space travel has again made children of us all.”
— Nov 20, 2023 06:05PM