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“Is it not lack of faith that leads men to fear the scrutiny of reason? If the destination is doubtful, than the path must be fraught with fear. A robust faith need not fear, for if God exists, then reason cannot help but lead us to Him. Cogito, ergo Deus est,'says St. Augustine, I think, therefore God is.”
― Donna Woolfolk Cross, Pope Joan

tags: faith, god, knowledge, latin, reason, st-augustine

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“I can’t help but ask, “Do you know where you are?”
She turns to me with a foreboding glare. “Do you?”
― Nathan Reese Maher

tags: abandoned, amnesia, androids, apocalypse, carrack, cityisle, cityspire, count, damnation, death, desolate, dreams, emily-dickinson, empty, fedora, ghosts, gothic, greek-mythology, haunting, haunts, horace-walpole, jazz, life, magic, magick, mannequins, masquerade, music, phillip-k-dick, piano, poems, puddles, rain, reflections, romance, sacrifice, science-fiction, sex, shakespeare, ships, songs, specters, spectre, storms, tempest, waking, water

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“But, you know, I feel more fellowship with the defeated than with saints. Heroism and sanctity don't really appeal to me, I imagine. What interests me is being a man.”
― Albert Camus, The Plague

tags: downtrodden, genuine, humanism

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