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There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist.

— John Fowles The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969)

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Everything free and decent in life is being locked away in filthy little cellars by beastly people who don’t care.

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The Magus (1965)

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.

The Magus (1965)

There are only two races on this planet — the intelligent and the stupid.

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When the mind is not dissipated upon extraneous things, nor diffused over the world about us through the senses, it withdraws within itself, and of its own accord ascends to the contemplation of God.

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