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The truth of art keeps science from becoming inhuman, and the truth of science keeps art from becoming ridiculous.

— Raymond Chandler

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There are two kinds of truth: the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart.

The girl slept on, motionless, in that curled-up looseness achieved by some women and all cats.

It seemed like a nice neighborhood to have bad habits in.

The Big Sleep (1939)

A few locks of dry white hair clung to his scalp, like wild flowers fighting for life on a bare rock.

The Big Sleep (1939)

The plants filled the place, a forest of them, with nasty meaty leaves and stalks like the newly washed fingers of dead men.

The Big Sleep (1939)

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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

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All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.

Albert Einstein Moral Decay (1937)

Science and religion are two human enterprises sharing many features.

Freeman Dyson Infinite in All Directions (1988)

To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.

Henri Poincaré Science and Hypothesis (1901)

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