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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.
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The will is never free - it is always attached to an object, a purpose. It is simply the engine in the car - it can't steer
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I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.
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Remember I'm an artist. And you know what that means in a court of law. Next worst to an actress
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A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.
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Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul - politics does the same thing for the body.
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God is a character, a real and consistent being, or He is nothing. If God did a miracle He would deny His own nature and the universe would simply blow up, vanish, become nothing.
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Love doesn't grow on the trees like apples in Eden. It's something you have to make. And you must use your imagination to make it too, just like anything else.
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The will is never free -- it is always attached to an object, a purpose. It is simply the engine in the car -- it can't steer.
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