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Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Then this God does exist according to you?"
"He does not exist, but He is. In the stone there is no pain, but in the fear of the stone is the pain. God is the pain of the fear of death. He who will conquer pain and terror will become himself a god.”

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Demons
tags: death, fear, god, pain, stone, terror
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