Her clothes have no buttons. There are two missing from my jacket. This lady and I are almost of the same religion.

—Guillaume Apollinaire

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About Guillaume Apollinaire

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Guillaume Apollinaire ( ə-POL-in-AIR, French: [ɡijom apɔlinɛːʁ]; born Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Aleksander Apolinary Kostrowicki; 26 August 1880 – 9 November 1918) was a Polish-French poet, playwright, short story writer, novelist and art critic of Polish, Swiss and Italian descent.

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Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

—Guillaume Apollinaire

Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony.

—Guillaume Apollinaire

Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.

—Guillaume Apollinaire

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You can change the place you live, your clothes, your interests, your friends, your religion and even your partner. However, if you forgot to change your mind, attitude, beliefs about the world, how you treat people and how you plan to be different this time around, why did you even bother?

—Shannon L. Alder

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We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the same sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

—H. L. Mencken

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All religions are the same: religion is basically guilt, with different holidays.

—Cathy Ladman

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True myths may serve for thousands of years as an inexhaustible source of intellectual speculation, religious joy, ethical inquiry, and artistic renewal. The real mystery is not destroyed by reason. The fake one is. You look at it and it vanishes. You look at the Blond Hero—really look—and he turns into a gerbil. But you look at Apollo, and he looks back at you. The poet Rilke looked at a statue of Apollo about fifty years ago, and Apollo spoke to him. "You must change your life," he said. When the true myth rises into consciousness, that is always its message: "You must change your life.

—Ursula K. Le Guin

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My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.

—Christopher Morley in Hide and Seek

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