"Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find nowhere else but in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion. Religion's eleventh commandment is "Thou shalt not question."

-- Sigmund Freud

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“Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.”

Source : "Self-Consciousness: Memoirs". Book by John Updike, 1989.
“We're in the second golden age of television, and to me, one of the most profound things that's happening in TV is just that by default that opened the door to more women, more people of color, more outliers. It's one of the greatest side effects of the digital revolution.”
“The establishment of a clear, central purpose or goal in life is the starting point of all success”
“Why would you be afraid of death? It would be an inconvenience. I have a lot of undone things and it's bound to get in the way. But, no, it doesn't scare me at all.”
“I will not deny that my heart has long occupied itself with the most tender feelings for another. So strong were these impulses that I indulged myself by thinking that if I could not have him whom I admired whom I will admit it now when I would not before I loved then I would never want another. However those are sentiments best saved for one of Lily's romances. The heart is a far more practical thing and in its life is happily capable of more than a single attachment.”

Source : Galen Beckett (2008). “The Magicians and Mrs. Quent”, p.310, Bantam
“I love you, Ella May," I whisper, kissing her cheek. "And one day I want to be doing this exact same thing at our wedding.”
“Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship.”
“Regarding the debate about faith and works: It's like asking which blade in a pair of scissors is most important.”

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