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The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apart

The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion. – John Updike

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What art offers is space — a certain breathing room for the spirit. – John Updike

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You cannot help but learn more as you take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is an old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it. – John Updike

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The first breath of adultery is the freest after it, constraints aping marriage develop. – John Updike

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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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The myths about Hades and the gods, though they are pure invention, help to make men virtuous. – Diodorus Siculus, c.20BC

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People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced. – Samuel Butler

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The churches must learn humility as well as teach it. – George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan

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In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men. – Simone de Beauvoir

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