"And, then, if only there were some truth in what the priests say, if only the poor of this world were rich in the next!"
These words were greeted with a burst of laughter, and even the children shrugged their shoulders, for the hard wind blowing from the outer world had taken away all their belief. They harbored a secret fear of ghosts down in the mine, but scoffed at the empty heavens.

— Émile Zola Germinal (1885)

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