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“The true believer cannot rest until the whole world bows the knee. Is it not obvious to all, say the pious, that religious authority is paramount, and that those who decline to recognize it have forfeited their right to exist?”

“I leave it to the faithful to burn each others church’s and mosques and synagogue, which they can always be relied upon to do.”

“Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and—since there is no other metaphor—also the soul”

“Yet was it a sin to want to live?”

“Was god seeing the things they did out here?”

“But hunger is a void of all compassion”

“The myth of the nation is perhaps most vividly captured: a brittle, unchanging, and illusionary idea that is so weak it needs a strongman leader, who has confused himself for his nation, to protect it.”

“Cruelty was as much a part of creation as beauty” “For all there was grandeur in this view of the world, there was grief too”

“Cruelty was as much a part of creation as beauty” “For all there was grandeur in this view of life, there was grief too”

“When I am dead, know that many times, I have kissed and cryed over this.” WOW.

Genuinely one of the best books I’ve read in a while