"Without its assiduity to the ridiculous, would the human race have lasted more than a single generation?"

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“Fortunate those who, born before science, were privileged to die of their first disease!”

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“The more one is obsessed with God, the less one is innocent. Nobody bothered about him in paradise. The fall brought about this divine torture. It's not possible to be conscious of divinity without guilt. Thus God is rarely to be found in an innocent soul.”

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