Cyril Connolly Quotes About Atheism
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The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven.
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If our elaborate and dominating bodies are given us to be denied at every turn, if our nature is always wrong and wicked, how ineffectual we are; like fishes not meant to swim.
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There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he is a disappointing God.
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Believing in Hell must distort every judgement on this life.
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The Expulsion from Eden is an act of vindictive womanish spite; the Fall of Man, as recounted in the Bible, comes nearer to the Fall of God.
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We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy.
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Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action.
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There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.
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