If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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Voltaire. Épître à l'Auteur du Livre des Trois Imposteurs [Letter to the author of The Three Impostors]. 10 Nov. 1770.
Voltaire. Épître à l'Auteur du Livre des Trois Imposteurs [Letter to the author of The Three Impostors]. 10 Nov. 1770.
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Voltaire. Candide, ou l'Optimisme [Candide: or, All for the Best]. Geneva: Gabriel Cramer, 1759, ch. 12.
Voltaire. Candide, edited by Nicholas Cronk. W. W. Norton & Company, 2016, ch. 12.
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Johnson, Samuel. Quoted in journal entry by James Boswell. 6 July 1763.
Johnson, Samuel. Quoted in The Life of Samuel Johnson, written by James Boswell, edited by David Womersley. Penguin Classics, 2008.
Ovid. Ars Amatoria [The Art of Love]. c. 2 AD, bk. 1.
Ovid. "The Art of Love." The Love Poems, translated by A. D. Melville. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 1.
Proust, Marcel. Du côté de chez Swann [The Way by Swann's]. Paris: Grasset, 1913.
Proust, Marcel. Swann's Way, edited and translated by Lydia Davis. Penguin Classics, 2004.