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Existentialism is about being a saint without God being your own h

Existentialism is about being a saint without God being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society. – Anita Brookner

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Romanticism is not just a mode; it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man. – Anita Brookner

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Life… is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply wont be got rid of. – Anita Brookner

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The fact that religion plays such a part in how people vote troubles me, troubles me as a ministers daughter. Because I always felt that the separation of church and state was what our forefathers and foremothers really fought for. – Tori Amos

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I think people often come to the synagogue, mosque, the church looking for God, and what we give them is religion. – Gene Robinson

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Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce. – Walter Savage Landor

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There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God? – Eddie Izzard

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