"Those who believe that they believe in God, but without passion in their hearts, without anguish in mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation, believe only in the God idea, not in God Himself."
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Miguel de Unamuno, Tragic Sense of Life (1913), p. 211
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