“Even if it were proven that God didn't exist, Religion would still be Saintly and Divine.”
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I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.
Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally goodness is always the product of some art.
Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.
Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.