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I'm a religious man, " he said. "I don't believe in a particular God, but even so one can have a faith, something beyondthe limits of rationality. Marxism has a large element ofbuilt-in faith, although it claims to be a science and notmerely an ideology. This is my first visit to the West: untilnow I have only been able to go to the Soviet Union or Poland or the Baltic states. In your country I see anabundance of material things. It seems to be unlimited. Butthere's a difference between our countries that is also asimilarity. Both are poor. You see, poverty has differentfaces. We lack the abundance that you have, and we don'thave the freedom of choice. In your country I detect a kind of poverty, which is that you do not need to fight for yoursurvival. For me the struggle has a religious dimension, and I would not want to exchange that for your abundance.Henning Mankell
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I ask myself everyday what my life is doing to me and I realize I don't have anybody I can talk to."" You should have" said the Doctor "everybody should.Henning Mankell
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I know paradise has many gates, just as hell does. One has to learn to distinguish between them, or one is lost.Henning Mankell
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He was religious, but had refrained from allowing his religious ideals to be obscured by a god.Henning Mankell