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He believed because he wanted to believe. And that, too, is madness.

— Michael F. Flynn The Forest of Time (1987)

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If people don’t leave a hole in your life when they are gone, Consuela, they were never in your life at all.

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The nag is as fat as a monk—and will stop to eat at every chance, so the resemblance is no happenstance.

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He dyed his hair with great art, maintaining enough gray to suggest wisdom, but not so much as to suggest age.

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No field of knowledge is so transparently simple as another’s.

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One does not debate nature; one experiences nature.

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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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