We love our mother unknowingly, and only realize how deep-rooted that love is at the ultimate separation. - Guy de Maupassant

"Do you know how I picture God myself?" he said. "As an enormous, creative organ beyond our ken, who scatters millions of worlds into space, just as one single fish would deposit its spawn in the sea. He creates because it is His function as God to do so, but He does not know what He is doing and is stupidly prolific in His work and is ignorant of the combinations of all kinds which are produced by His scattered germs."

I had kissed her at odd times, in out of the way corners, in the manner of a mountain guide, nothing more.

Some people are Freethinkers from sheer stupidity. My Uncle Sosthenes was one of these. Some people are often religious for the same reason.