Reason's a thing we dimly see in sleep.
I've never gone anywhere where the men have come up to my infantile expectations. I always have gone through life constantly being surprised by the extreme, marvelous qualities of a small minority of men. But I can't see the rest of them. They seem awful rubbish.
International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge.
All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not to go soft like so many sleepy pears.
Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.
The word 'idiot' comes from a Greek root meaning private person. Idiocy is the female defect: intent on their private lives, women follow their fate through a darkness deep as that cast by malformed cells in the brain. It is no worse than the male defect, which is lunacy: men are so obsessed by public affairs that they see the world as by moonlight, which shows the outlines of every object but not the details indicative of their nature.
The case against religion is the responsibility of God for the sufferings of mankind, which makes it impossible to believe the good things said about Him in the Bible, and consequently to believe anything it says about Him.
Like all bad drivers, he [Henry Andrews] thought he was the best driver in the world...
A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned things is ample.
In these pages your imaginations, your desires, your passions are given life; Thoughts take shape that turn into dreams and our aspirations all start with a dream. Reading is where those dreams really can come true over and over again.
I believe if people are looking for the truth, the truth of the Christian religion will come out and meet them.
All good biography, as all good fiction, comes down to the study of original sin, of our inherent disposition to choose death when we ought to choose life.
Humanity is never more sphinxlike than when it is expressing itself.
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