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" It is true, that which I have revealed to you; there is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream — a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought — a vagrant thought,... "
Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences - Page 26
1915
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The Mysterious Stranger: And Other Stories

Mark Twain - 1922 - 338 pages
...conscious of its freaks — in a word, that they are a dream, and you the maker of it. The dream-marks are all present; you should have recognized them earlier....universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream — a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but...
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The Mysterious Stranger: And Other Stories

Mark Twain - 1922 - 342 pages
...all present; you should have recognized them earlier. — "It 'te"true>~tnat TwEciri have reveaied~fb you; there is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream — a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but...
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The Classical Journal, Volume 20

1925 - 634 pages
...Mysterious Stranger is utter. The world of reality fades into the dark, and naught remains but a thought. " 'It is true, that which I have revealed to you : there...universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream — a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but...
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Scenes of Nature, Signs of Men: Essays on 19th and 20th Century American ...

Tony Tanner - 1989 - 292 pages
...be alone in shoreless space, to wander its limitless solitudes without friend or comrade forever ... It is true, that which I have revealed to you; there...universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream - a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but...
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Duplicating Imagination: Twain and the Twain Papers

Maria Ornella Marotti - 2010 - 213 pages
...unhappiness. All is dream, but dream is nothing: "Life itself is only a vision, a dream." (p. 404) "There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a Dream, a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but You. And You are but...
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The Prince of Darkness: Radical Evil and the Power of Good in History

Jeffrey Burton Russell - 1992 - 308 pages
...and finally, with altogether divine obtuseness, invites this poor abused slave to worship him! . . . It is true, that which I have revealed to you: there...universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream. These words, which the traditional Satan...
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The Mark Twain Encyclopedia

J. R. LeMaster, James Darrell Wilson, Christie Graves Hamric - 1993 - 952 pages
...written ca. 1904) we find diis denial: "Nothing exists; all is a dream. God — man — the world . . . [T]here is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a Dream, a grotesque and foolish dream" (404-405). The tragedies of life, however,...
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The Masterless: Self & Society in Modern America

Wilfred M. McClay - 1994 - 386 pages
...natural points of potential moral connection for the self are illusory; ours is a solipsistic world. "There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but...
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When in Doubt, Tell the Truth: And Other Quotations from Mark Twain

Mark Twain, Brian Collins - 1996 - 196 pages
...that come down, and then went to bed; there ain't no better way to put in time when you are lonesome. There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but...
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The Comedian as Confidence Man: Studies in Irony Fatigue

Will Kaufman - 1997 - 284 pages
...mouthpiece slips in vituperative confusion between his damnations of God and his atheistic nihilism: " 'It is true, that which I have revealed to you; there...universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream — a grotesque and foolish dream.' " In the now tattered disguise that...
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