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Fable
A fable is a succinct fictional story, in prose or verse, that features animals, mythical creatures, plants, inanimate objects or forces of nature which are anthropomorphized (given human qualities such as verbal communication), and that illustrates or leads to an interpretation of a moral lesson (a "moral"), which may at the end be added explicitly in a pithy maxim.
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Nature is what we know. We do not know the gods of religions. And nature is not kind, or merciful, or loving. If God made me � the fabled God of the three qualities of which I spoke: mercy, kindness, love � He also made the fish I catch and eat. And where do His mercy, kindness, and love for that fish come in? No; nature made us � nature did it all � not the gods of the religions.
[October 2, 1910, interview in the NY Times Magazine]
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If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One... I am become Death, the Shatterer of Worlds.
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