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Quick, keen, caustic—wit is the instrument that cuts through the torpor of bad faith, overweening sincerity, and shit thinking.

— Alex Jovanovich

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Even in death, the angelic Nozkowski continues to give us life.

The only way to do it properly is to understand that love is some dwelling at the other edge of oblivion.

Death is met by sweetness and light in the ebullient, ethereal work of Agatha Wojciechowsky.

There is nothing more exhilarating than being a pervert.

Queers have always been treated as castoffs, so it makes sense that so many of us, historically, have found solace and communion in cast-off things.

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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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