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There are gods, but there is no God and all gods become devils eventually.
Robert Anton Wilson
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Robert Anton Wilson
Age: 74 †
Born: 1932
Born: January 18
Died: 2007
Died: January 11
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You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.
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O how the darkness do crowd up, one against the other, in ye hearts! What fear ye more that what ye have wroughten?
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