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“I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him. ”

— Mikhail Bakunin

“After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility? {Said in a letter to Voltaire }”

— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

I must give you a piece of intelligence that you perhaps already know, namely that the ungodly arch-villain Voltaire has died miserably like a…

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

“He liked to think of himself as a merciless vivisector probing into the palpitating entrails of his own soul.”

— Aldous Huxley

“I found my father asleep in his dining-room armchair, with a blanket over his legs and his favorite book open in his hands--a copy…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

During this earlier period of his activity Voltaire seems to have been trying - half unconsciously, perhaps - to discover and to express the…

— Lytton Strachey

“And when I say that he lost his head, what I mean is not that his judgement abandoned him but that his enthusiasms and…

— Saul Bellow

“I could put a book in his hands, but I couldn't take him by the ankles and dip him headfirst in another world. And…

— Rebecca Makkai

“There was something about him so pure and untarnished,yet he was powerful and well-versed on life.”

— Cecelia Ahern

“I'm one that will cause people to scratch their heads in wonderment in search of their hollow hearts and look in their souls and…

— Sun Ra

“He seemed to be drawing inward toward some point at which he would be reduced to the fundamental essence of himself.”

— William Gay

“Maybe the world was like a revolving door, it occurred to him as his consciousness was fading away. And which section you ended up…

— Haruki Murakami