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1. "There's a large strain of irony in our human affairs... Interwoven with our affairs is this wonderful spirit of irony which prevents us from ever being utterly and irretrievably serious, from being unaware of the mysterious nature of our existence." ~ Malcolm Muggeridge
2. "I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus." ~ Malcolm Muggeridge
3. "History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that." ~ Malcolm Muggeridge
4. "Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society." ~ Malcolm Muggeridge
5. "Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it." ~ Malcolm Muggeridge
6. "Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time." ~ Malcolm Muggeridge
7. "One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up." ~ Malcolm Muggeridge
8. "The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then their fraudulence is apparent for all to see. We need a kingdom of heaven in Heaven, if only because it can't be realized." ~ Malcolm Muggeridge
9. "This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life." ~ Malcolm Muggeridge
10. "St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel." ~ Malcolm Muggeridge
11. "Surely the glory of journalism is its transience." ~ Malcolm Muggeridge
12. "He was not only a bore; he bored for England." ~ Malcolm Muggeridge
13. "My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it." ~ Malcolm Muggeridge
14. "Travel, of course, narrows the mind." ~ Malcolm Muggeridge
15. "All new news is old news happening to new people" ~ Malcolm Muggeridge
16. "I beg you to believe that life is not a process, it's a drama" ~ Malcolm Muggeridge
17. "Against the new leviathan, whether in the guise of universal suffrage, democracy, or of an equally fraudulent triumphant proletariat, he (Kierkegaard) pitted the individual human soul made in the image of a God who was concerned about the fate of every living creature. In contrast with the notion of salvation through power, he held out the hope of salvation through suffering. The Cross against the ballot box or clenched fist; the solitary pilgrim against the slogan-shouting mob; the crucified Christ against the demagogue-dictators promising a kingdom of heaven on earth, whether achieved through endlessly expanding wealth and material well-being, or through the ever greater concentration of power and its ever more ruthless exercise." ~ Malcolm Muggeridge
18. "Perhaps I should have been one [some sort of a professional religious]; I like to think a monk notable for his austerities, the voice of one crying in the wilderness; but more probably a tiresome Unitarian in Walsall who writes incessantly to the local paper." ~ Malcolm Muggeridge
19. "Animistic savages prostrating themselves before a painted stone have always seemed to me to be nearer the truth than any Einstein or Bertrand Russell. As it might be pigs in a crowded sty, jostling and shoving to bury their snouts in the trough; until one of them momentarily lifts his snout upwards in the air, in so doing expressing the hope of all enlightenment to come; breaking off from his guzzling to point with his lifted snout to where the angels and archangels gather round God's throne." ~ Malcolm Muggeridge
20. "Toate vestile noi sunt vesti vechi care se întâmpla unor oameni noi." ~ Malcolm Muggeridge
21. "As I see it, the only pleasure of living is that every joke should be made, every thought expressed, every line of investigation, irrespective of its direction, pursued to the uttermost limits that human ingenuity, courage and understanding can take it. The moment that limits are set... then the flavor is gone." ~ Malcolm Muggeridge
22. "So the final conclusion would surely be that whereas other civilizations have been brought down by attacks of barbarians from without, ours had the unique distinction of training its own destroyers at its own educational institutions, and then providing them with facilities for propagating their destructive ideology far and wide, all at the public expense. Thus did Western Man decide to abolish himself, creating his own boredom out of his own affluence, his own vulnerability out of his own strength, his own impotence out of his own erotomania, himself blowing the trumpet that brought the walls of his own city tumbling down, and having convinced himself that he was too numerous, labored with pill and scalpel and syringe to make himself fewer. Until at last, having educated himself into imbecility, and polluted and drugged himself into stupefaction, he keeled over--a weary, battered old brontosaurus--and became extinct." ~ Malcolm Muggeridge
23. "If God is dead, somebody is going to have to take his place. It will be megalomania or erotomania, the drive for power or the drive for pleasure, the clenched fist or the phallus, Hitler or Hugh Hefner." ~ Malcolm Muggeridge
24. "The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact." ~ Malcolm Muggeridge
25. "In the end, coming to faith remains for all a sense of homecoming, of picking up the threads of a lost life, of responding to a bell that had long been ringing, of taking a place at a table that had long been vacant." ~ Malcolm Muggeridge
26. "Christianity . . . sees the necessity for man to have spiritual values and it shows him how to get at those through physical sacraments." ~ Malcolm Muggeridge
27. "People think of faith as being something that you don't really believe, a device in helping you believe simply it. Of course that is quite wrong. As Pascal says, faith is a gift of God. It is different from the proof of it. It is the kind of faith God himself places in the heart, of which the proof is often the instrument...He says of it, too, that it is the heart which is aware of God, and not reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not be reason." ~ Malcolm Muggeridge
28. "Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message." ~ Malcolm Muggeridge
29. "Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream." ~ Malcolm Muggeridge
30. "The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment." ~ Malcolm Muggeridge
31. "[Pascal] was the first and perhaps is still the most effective voice to be raised in warning of the consequences of the enthronement of the human ego in contradistinction to the cross, symbolizing the ego's immolation. How beautiful it all seemed at the time of the Enlightenment, that man triumphant would bring to pass that earthly paradise whose groves of academe would ensure the realization forever of peace, plenty, and beatitude in practice. But what a nightmare of wars, famines, and folly was to result therefrom." ~ Malcolm Muggeridge
32. "I myself am convinced that the theory of evolution, especially to the extent to which it has been applied, will be one of the greatest jokes in the history books of the future. Posterity will marvel that so very flimsy and dubious an hypothesis could be accepted with the incredible credulity it has." ~ Malcolm Muggeridge

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Magnus was especially charmed by the sight of the spider monkeys above, dainty and glossy with long arms and legs spread out in the trees like stars, and the shy swift spring of squirrel monkeys."Picture this," said Magnus. "Me with a little monkey friend. I could teach him tricks. I could dress him in a cunning jacket. He could look just like me! But more monkey-shaped.""Your friend has gone mad and giddy with the altitude sickness," Giuliana announced. "We are many feet above sea level here."Magnus was not entirely sure why he had brought a guide."
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