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Samuel Butler Novelist, Poet, Essayist
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"To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him."

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
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"I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly: feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable."

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Truman Capote Author, Journalist
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"I will say only that all a writer has to work with is the material he has gathered as the result of his own endeavor and observations, and he cannot be denied the right to use it. Condemn, but not deny."

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Franz Kafka Writer
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"In a certain sense you deny the existence of this world. You explain life as a state of rest, a state of rest in motion."

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Franz Kafka Writer
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"Some deny the existence of misery by pointing to the sun; he denies the existence of the sun by pointing to misery."

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Saint Augustine Theologian, Philosopher
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"It is said that there is no salvation outside the Church. Who denies this? And therefore whatever things of the Church are had outside the Church do not avail unto salvation."

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Simone Weil Philosopher, Activist
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"Of two men who have no experience of God, he who denies him is perhaps nearer to him than the other."

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