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He forgave these Tropemen, then felt contempt for himself for the presumption of extending forgiveness, then forgave again, then cursed his own vanity, forgave once more, condemned his presumption, and at last forgave even himself.

— Michael Bishop A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire (1975)

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Both God and man hold each other in equally beautiful contempt.

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Extinction confers on the has-been the same mythological status that imagination confers on the never-was.

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But each man who worships you sees only what he wishes to see rather than any mystery you may actually embody.

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God could hardly damn me for a coward, great cosmic exemplar of laissez-faire that he is.

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