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The exquisitely bad is as satisfying to the soul as the exquisitely good. Only the mediocre is unendurable.

There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought -a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities!

Don't let schooling interfere with your education.

Next you'd see a raft sliding by, away off yonder, and maybe a galoot on it chopping. . . you'd see the ax flash and come down-you don't hear nothing; you see the ax go up again, and by the time it's above the man's head then you hear the k'chunk!-it had took all that time to come over the water.

I am able to say that while I am not ruggedly well, I am not ill enough to excite an undertaker.

Stripping away the irrational, the illogical, and the impossible, I am left with atheism. I can live with that.