"Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination."
-Marquis de Sade
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"To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.“
-Marquis de Sade
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"We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus but our ideas about Santa Claus change, mature and become more nuanced, whereas our ideas of God can remain at a rather infantile level."
-Karen Armstrong
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