“Anyone who doesn't believe in miracles is not a realist.”
Audrey Hepburn (1929–1993) British actress
David Ben Gurion, as quoted in Psychosocial Care of the Dying Patient (1978) by Charles A. Garfield
Misattributed
“Anyone who believes cannot experience miracles. By day one does not see any stars. Anyone who does miracles says: I cannot let go of the earth.”
— Franz Kafka, book The Blue Octavo Notebooks
21 November 1917
Variant translation: Anyone who believes cannot experience miracles. By day one cannot see any stars.
The Blue Octavo Notebooks (1954)
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