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“I would rather be a devil in alliance with truth, than an angel in alliance with falsehood.”
― Essence of Christianity
― Essence of Christianity

“We returned to our places, these Kingdoms,
But no longer at ease here, in the old dispensation,
With an alien people clutching their gods.
I should be glad of another death.”
― Collected Poems, 1909-1962
But no longer at ease here, in the old dispensation,
With an alien people clutching their gods.
I should be glad of another death.”
― Collected Poems, 1909-1962

“I submitted entirely to the dog and, as a man with no gift for dancing, I had the feeling that I was able to dance for the first time in my life, secure and without inhibition. Occasionally, we kissed, the dog and I. Woke up feeling extremely satisfied.”
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“Love thou thy dream
All base love scorning,
Love thou the wind
And here take warning
That dreams alone can truly be,
For 'tis in dream I come to thee.”
― A Lume Spento
All base love scorning,
Love thou the wind
And here take warning
That dreams alone can truly be,
For 'tis in dream I come to thee.”
― A Lume Spento

“If therefore my work is negative, irreligious, atheistic, let it be remembered that atheism — at least in the sense of this work — is the secret of religion itself; that religion itself, not indeed on the surface, but fundamentally, not in intention or according to its own supposition, but in its heart, in its essence, believes in nothing else than the truth and divinity of human nature.”
― Essence of Christianity
― Essence of Christianity
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