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Let's give this entity which you call soul another name. Soul has too many incorrect meanings for humans, too many verbal reverberations, too many contrary definitions.
The Magic Labyrinth (1980)
Everybody should fear only one person, and that person should be himself.
The Magic Labyrinth (1980)
Monasticism, retreat from the world, reclusivism, that’s a lot of crap.
The Magic Labyrinth (1980)
Malory clung to his faith with fierce obliviousness to “facts”—in itself an indication that he had gone mad, if his critics were to be believed.
The Magic Labyrinth (1980)
If you live very long time or are immortal, perhaps you learn everything about everything in order to pass the time.
The Magic Labyrinth (1980)
By the Providence that did not exist, events had worked out perfectly.
The Magic Labyrinth (1980)
I concluded that extreme mysticism was closely allied to madness.
The Magic Labyrinth (1980)
Sometimes I regret we are forbidden any violence whatsoever. Right now, I would like to kick you in the ass.
The Magic Labyrinth (1980)
You should have waited to find out the true situation, madame. But then…scarcely anyone ever does.
The Magic Labyrinth (1980)
And how in God’s name did Santiago find out about the laser? Even Queen Victoria’s sex life wasn’t a better secret.
The Magic Labyrinth (1980)
Burton sighed. She was, on the whole, sane. But she was also a religious fanatic who managed to ignore the facts of life and also the contradictory elements in her faith.
The Magic Labyrinth (1980)
Clemens was afraid that he’d lose his temper and cuss out King John as no one else in the universe had ever been cussed out before.
The Magic Labyrinth (1980)
I have been forced into this situation and may like it. To survive you must lie better than the liars, deceive more than the deceivers, and kill the killers first! To me it’s sheer necessity, though justified!
The Magic Labyrinth (1980)
Sometimes you are arrogant, thinking you are better than others. More often you are humble. Too humble. I might even say, sickeningly humble. That is another form of arrogance. True humility is knowing your true place in the cosmic scale.
The Magic Labyrinth (1980)
By now you must have accepted the fact that your religion, in fact, none of the Earthly religions, truly knew what the afterlife would be. All made guesses, and then established these as articles of faith. Though, in a sense, some were near the mark, if you accept their revelations as symbolic.
The Magic Labyrinth (1980)
“Perhaps God—if there is one—doesn’t care,” Burton said. “There is no evidence whatsoever that He does.”
The Magic Labyrinth (1980)
Now, this is what the visitor said the Ethicals had learned from the Ancients. The Creator, God, the One Spirit, call it what you will, forms all. It is the universe; the universe is it. But its body is formed of two essences. One is matter, the other, for lack of a better word, is nonmatter.
The Magic Labyrinth (1980)