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I’ve been saying a special prayer to Eunmar; did you know I believe in the old gods? If you try hard enough, I’ve found, you can believe anything.

— L. Sprague de Camp Rogue Queen (1951)

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All supernaturalism is simply a scheme to enable a class of magicians called priests to live without working.

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There is nothing so dangerous as an ignorant and frightened man.

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Not even a god, they say, could be at once wise and in love.

An Elephant for Aristotle (1958)

One man’s wickedness becomes all men’s curse.

An Elephant for Aristotle (1958)

As all young men must, I was learning the painful lesson that there is no substitute for experience.

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Oh dear Pan and all the other Gods of this place, grant that I may be beautiful inside.

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To feel the supreme and moving beauty of the spectacle to which Nature invites her ephemeral guests! … that is what I call prayer.

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