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  • They will get it straight one day at the Sorbonne. We shall return at twilight from the lecture Pleased that the irrational is rational.

    -Wallace Stevens
      NotesToward A Supreme Fiction,'It Must Give Pleasure'.

  • Religion isthetragedy of mankind† But I do know, from the inside as well as from personal observation, that religion appeals to something deep and irrational and strong within us, and that is what makes it so dangerous.

    - A(ndrew) N(orman) Wilson
    Against Religion, no.19.

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