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To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.

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Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

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All the natural movements of the soul are controlled by laws analogous to those of physical gravity. Grace is the only exception. Grace fills empty sp...more

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Belief in immortality is harmful because it is not in our power to conceive of the soul as really incorporeal. So this belief is in fact a belief in t...more