[b]Anatole France
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves. We must die to one life before we can enter another.[/b]
Or certainly something like this.
I sought out the laws which govern nature, solid or ethereal, and after much pondering I perceived that the Universe had not been formed as its pretended Creator would have us believe; I knew that all that exists, exists of itself and not by the caprice of Iahveh; that the world is itself its own creator and the spirit its own God. Henceforth I despised Iahveh for his imposture, and I hated him because he showed himself to be opposed to all that I found desirable and good: liberty, curiosity, doubt.
Clearly, one man’s opinion.
Yet, every now and then, there would pass a young girl, slender, fair and desirable, arousing in young men a not ignoble desire to possess her, and stirring in old men regrets for ecstasy not seized and now forever past.
In other words, some things never change.
What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance?
Unless of course it did.
Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
By definition as it were.
There are forces, Lucius, infinitely more powerful than reason and science.
What are they? asked Cotta.
Ignorance and folly, replied Aristaeus.
Cue among others Robert Mueller.