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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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In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game. – Anita Brookner

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Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything. – Anita Brookner

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Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst. – Thomas Paine

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There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation. – Eugene Ionesco

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Do not imagine that what we have said of the insufficiency of our understanding and of its limited extent is an assertion founded only on the Bible: for philosophers likewise assert the same, and perfectly understand it,- without having regard to any religion or opinion. – Maimonides

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Nature wants us to enjoy life to the full and die without giving it a second thought; Christianity wants the opposite. – Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Les Cahiers

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