One man doesn't believe in god at all, while the other believes in him so thoroughly that he prays as he murders men!
("The Idiot")
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Ah, Father! That's words and only words! Forgive! If he'd not been run over, he'd have come home today drunk and his only shirt dirty and in rags and he'd have fallen asleep like a log, and I should have been sousing and rinsing till daybreak, washing his rags and the children's and then drying them by the window and as soon as it was daylight I should have been darning them. What's the use of talking forgiveness! I have forgiven as it is!Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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