"Faith is not a blind, irrational conviction. In order to believe, we must know what we believe, and the grounds on which our faith rests."

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For me the whole world is like a gigantic theater in which I am the only spectator without opera glasses. The orchestra plays the prelude to the third act, the stage is far away as in a dream, my heart swells with delight—and you want to blind me with a pair of half-ruble spectacles?

— Isaac Babel