"It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.
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The Banshees of Inisherin
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I do feel sometimes I'm just entertaining myself while staving off the inevitable. Don't you?
No.
Sure you do.
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You, Colm, you know what you used to be?
No Pádraic what did I used to be?
Nice! You used to be nice! And now, do you know what you are? Not nice.
I suppose niceness doesn't last then does it Pádraic. But I'll tell you something that does last.
What? And don't say something stupid lIke music.
Music lasts.
I knew it!
And paintings last. And poetry lasts.
So does niceness.
Do you know who they'll remember for how nice he was in the seventeenth century?
Who?