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“Can you smell his sweat? That peculiar goatish odor is trans-3-methyl-2 hexenoic acid. Remember it, it's the smell of schizophrenia.”

Book:The Silence of the Lambs

Work

The Silence of the Lambs

In this gripping novel, a young FBI trainee, Clarice Starling, seeks the help of a notorious serial killer, Dr. Hannibal Lecter, to capture another serial killer. The narrative intertwines their lives, revealing the dark corners of the human psyche and the chilling nature of evil. The book is renowned for its complex characters and suspenseful plot, making it a staple in the psychological thriller genre. more

Author

Thomas Harris

Thomas Harris, born on April 11, 1940, is a renowned American author known for his psychological thrillers. His most famous works include 'The Red Dragon', 'The Silence of the Lambs', and 'Hannibal'. more

“The future life is the feeling, the conception of freedom from those limits which here circumscribe the feeling of self, the existence of the individual. … The natural man remains at home because he finds it agreeable, because he is perfectly satisfied; religion … commences with a discontent, a disunion, forsakes its home and travels far, but only to feel … more vividly in the distance … home. In religion man separates himself from himself, but only to return always to the same point from which he set out [himself]. Man negatives himself, but only to posit himself again, and that in a glorified form: he negatives this life, but only, in the end, to posit it again in the future life.”

Not Apart A Part

Book:Essence of Christianity

Source: Essence of Christianity

“The religious man renounces the joys of this world, but only that he may win in return the joys of heaven; … and the joys of heaven are the same as those of earth, only that they are freed from the limits and contrarieties of this life. Religion thus arrives, though by a circuit, at the very goal, the goal of joy, towards which the natural man hastens in a direct line. To live in images or symbols is the essence of religion. Religion sacrifices the thing itself to the image.”

Not Apart A Part

Book:Essence of Christianity

Source: Essence of Christianity

“Faith in the future life is … faith in the truth of the imagination, as faith in God is faith in the truth and infinity of human feeling. … [F]aith in God is only faith in the abstract nature of man, so faith in the heavenly life is only faith in the abstract earthly life.”

Not Apart A Part Self Worship

Book:Essence of Christianity

Source: Essence of Christianity