I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.

Je respecte trop l’idée de Dieu pour la rendre responsable d’un monde aussi absurde.

Georges Duhamel

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Problem of evil Existence of God God

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Georges Duhamel

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French

Time

1937 1930s 20th century

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Duhamel, Georges. Le Desert de Bievre [The Desert of Bièvres]. Mercure de France, 1937, ch. 2.

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Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. "Братья Карамазовы [The Brothers Karamazov]." The Russian Messenger, Jan. 1879 - Nov. 1880. Serial.

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To have common glories in the past, a common will in the present; to have done great things together, to will to do the like again-these are the essential conditions for the making of a people.

Ernest Renan

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Ernest Renan
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What is a Nation?
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Renan, Ernest. "Qu’est-ce qu’une nation? [What is a Nation?]" 11 Mar. 1882, University of Sorbonne, Paris, France, pt. 3.

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