And none of this necessarily has any bearing on the issue of the existence or non-existence of a God. What I'm saying is that the thought of the man and the way this thinking-feeling can reach an extreme degree of incommunicability - that, without sophism or paradox, is at the same time, for that man, the point of greatest communication. He communicates with himself. Clarice Lispector
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Dostoyevsky was a Russian writer who wrote some of the most influential literature of the 19th century. The quote above is from his short story "The Double" that was first published in 1876. Dostoyevsky is discussing whether or not people can be self-sufficient and live without God, but at the same time have a strong feeling of being connected to the idea of God.

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