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If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

Feodor Dostoyevsky

Feodor Dostoyevsky (1821–1881), Russian novelist. Mr. Miusov, in The Brothers Karamazov, bk. 2, ch. 6 (published 1879-1880), trans. by David Magarshak (1958).

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