The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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Anand Thakur
The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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When bodies spring apart, because the air Somehow condenses, wander they from truth: For then a void is formed, where none before; And, too, a void is filled which was before.
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All life is a struggle in the dark.
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How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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So, little by little, time brings out each several thing into view, and reason raises it up into the shores of light.
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Fear is the mother of all gods.
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Epicurus whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun.
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Do we not see all humans unaware Of what they want, and always searching everywhere, And changing place, as if to drop the load they bear?
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Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
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Fear holds dominion over mortality Only because, seeing in land and sky So much the cause whereof no wise they know, Men think Divinities are working there.
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For out of doubt In these affairs ’tis each man’s will itself That gives the start, and hence throughout our limbs Incipient motions are diffused.
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Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another’s struggles.
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We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.
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So much wrong could religion induce.
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Look at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.
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There can be no centre in infinity.
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