“Question: What is the opposite of faith?

Not disbelief. Too final, certain, closed. Itself is a kind of belief.

Doubt.”

—  Salman Rushdie, book The Satanic Verses

Source: The Satanic Verses

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British Indian novelist and essayist 1947

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