“Religion is nothing, if it is not everything; if existence is not filled with it.”

— Anne Louise Germaine de Staël

Pt. 4, ch. 1
De l’Allemagne [Germany] (1813)
Original: (fr) La religion n'est rien si elle n'est pas tout, si l'existence n'en est pas remplie.

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