Throughout the long period of religious doubt, I had been rendered ver…

Bertrand Russell
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Throughout the long period of religious doubt, I had been rendered very unhappy by the gradual loss of belief, but when the process was completed, I found to my surprise that I was quite glad to be done with the whole subject. ✨ Bertrand Russell (2009). Autobiography, p.30, Routledge
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Throughout the long period of religious doubt, I had been rendered very unhappy by the gradual loss of belief, but when the process was completed, I found to my surprise that I was quite glad to be done with the whole subject. ✨ Bertrand Russell (2009). Autobiography, p.30, Routledge

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