“(Prayer is) a fictitious consolation invented by those who have everything in order to keep those who have nothing contented. I belong to the bourgeoisie and I know the only reason my class bothers to show the lower classes that distant paradise full of ineffable pleasures that will one day be theirs is to divert attention from their own bulging coffers and from the abundance of their harvests.” ReligionPrayer Book:The Mandarin and Other Stories Source: The Mandarin and Other Stories
“Let us depart instead for the fields of Dreams and wander those blue, romantic hills where stands the abandoned tower of the Supernatural, where cool mosses clothe the ruins of Idealism. Let us, in short, indulge in a little fantasy!” LiteratureFantasyDreamsFantasticIdealismSupernatural Book:The Mandarin and Other Stories Source: The Mandarin and Other Stories