God Told Moses

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“What you don’t understand is that it is possible to be an atheist, it is possible not to know if God exists or why He should, and yet to believe that man does not live in a state of nature but in history, and that history as we know it now began with Christ, it was founded by Him on the Gospels.”
—Boris Pasternak (1890–1960)

“Say, I wish you fellas coulda seen her face, though, when I walked in and told her, in the strictest confidence, of course, “Honey, I’m goin’ to the moon.”... Well, she looked at me for a second and then said, “What for? They ain’t got nothin’ there that we don’t have more of right here in Texas.””
—Kurt Neumann (1906–1958)

“Not since Moses has anyone seen a mountain so greatly.”
—Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926)