"Whether we like it or not, the one justification for the existence of all religions is death, they need death as much as we need bread to eat."

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And do you know, do you know that mankind can live without the Englishman, it can live without Germany, it can live only too well without the Russian man, it can live without science, without bread, and it only cannot live without beauty, for then there would be nothing at all to do in the world! The whole secret is here, the whole of history is here. Science itself would not stand for a minute without beauty

— Fyodor Dostoevsky