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There was one, the majority, filled with the men sparked by faith and certitude, and the other handed over to questioning, anxiety and bullying.

— Tahir devout

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Books constitute the safest refuge against this world of horror.

They have understood the danger in words, all the words they cannot manage to domesticate and anesthetize.

You do not easily part with utopia; it is an acid that cuts holes in the opacity of dogma.

What is persecuted above all, and more than people's opinions, is their ability to create and propagate beauty.

Words, put end to end, bring doubt and change.

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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

William James The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897)

Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

Thomas Jefferson Letter to Peter Carr (1787)

I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them.

Colin Wilson Postscript to the Outsider (1967)

Love is the active, working principle in all true faith. It is its very soul, without which it is dead. "Faith works by love."

Jonathan Edwards Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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