[T]he progress of civilization corresponds with the spread of general nausea.

Edgar Saltus

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Skepticism is history's bedfellow.

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I think our lives are surely but the dreams

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I wrote The Philosophy of Disenchantment, which is, I think, the gloomiest and worst book ever published. Out of sheer laziness, I then produced a history of atheism, The Anatomy of Negation, which has been honored by international dislike. Need I state that of all my children it is the one that I prefer?

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Men hate to be misunderstood, and to be understood makes them furious.

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A plain woman is one who, however beautiful, neglects to charm.

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