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San Manuel Bueno, Mártir (1931)
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One of those leaders of what they call the social revolution has said that religion is the opiate of the people. Opium... opium... opium, yes. Let us give them opium so that they can sleep and dream.
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And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.
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I would say that teleology is theology, and that God is not a "because," but rather an "in order to."
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Let us go on committing suicide by working among our people, and let them dream life just as the lake dreams the sky.
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With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Born:
September 29, 1864
Died:
December 31, 1936
(aged 72)
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