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We don't harm the gods when we mingle their names with our curses and obscenities. We harm ourselves. I said that I didn't regard most gods as holy, but they don't have to be for our malice and mockery to recoil upon ourselves.

— Gene Wolfe The Book of the Short Sun (1999)

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Experience is a wonderful teacher, but one whose lessons come too late.

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Paradoxes explain everything. Since they do, they cannot be explained.

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An exaggerated and solemn respect always indicates a loss of faith.

As you intend to live hereafter, it is in your power to live here.

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There are people who love birds so much they free them. There are others who love them so much they cage them.

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