I now understand the need for faith—pure, blind, fly-in-the-face-of-reason faith—as a small life preserver in… — Dan Simmons
I now understand the need for faith—pure, blind, fly-in-the-face-of-reason faith—as a small life preserver in the wild and endless sea of a universe ruled by unfeeling laws and totally indifferent to the small, reasoning beings that inhabit it.
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