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Religiousness (n.) that ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠is merely romantic is a fiat dollar: she swears by God, adjures by God, loves a man more than God — and has no trace of infinite resignation.

Religiousness (n.) begins ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠where, after seeing at once the comic and the tragic in the same thing — the culmination of paganism — a loftier passion elects the tragic.

Religiousness (n.) fetched ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠directly from reality is dubious; the religious is clearer when reality could not crush a man and he falls by himself — surviving the crisis of reality, then falling in conflict with himself.

Religiousness (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠essentially the strength to bear being taken for the only person who is not religious.

Religiousness (n.) would ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠have kept him from becoming a poet: had he been more devout, finitude would have become insignificant, and the worst could not frighten him more than it already had.