"Remember when Wing-Tsit Chong called you a tourist?"
"Yes."
"It was a polite way of saying you lack the confidence in yourself to find your own answers to life. You are always searching, Syrinx, though you never know what for. Religion was inevitably going to exert a fascination on you. The whole concept of salvation through belief offers strength to those who doubt themselves."
(from The Neutronium Alchemist by Peter F. Hamilton)
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