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I don’t think God has any more idea than you or I about what’s going on.

— Jasper Fforde The Woman Who Died a Lot (2012)

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To fail spectacularly is a loser’s paradise.

One of Our Thursdays is Missing (2011)

Failure concentrates the mind wonderfully. If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not trying hard enough.

The Well of Lost Plots (2003)

It would have been easy to dislike her intensely, but I actually felt nothing for her at all.

The idea that people actually do this because they like it strikes me as double insanity with added insanity.

One of Our Thursdays is Missing (2011)

Hamlet would worry about having nothing to worry about if he had nothing to worry about.

Something Rotten (2004)

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Most intellectual people do not believe in God, but they fear him just the same.

Wilhelm Reich Philosophy : An Introduction to the Art of Wondering (2005)

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.

Basil of Caesarea

Once you accept the existence of God — however you define him, however you explain your relationship to him — then you are caught forever with his presence in the center of all things.

Morris West The Clowns of God (1981)

God seeks comrades and claims love,
the Devil seeks slaves and claims obedience.

Rabindranath Tagore Fireflies (1928)

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