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The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker
The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence
If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty
God does not play dice
God always takes the simplest way
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish
Beware of the man whose god is in the skies
The gods too are fond of a joke
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