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St. Augustine Quote

“As the soul is the life of the body, so God is the life of the soul. As therefore the body perishes when the soul leaves it, so the soul dies when God departs from it.”

— St. Augustine

Source: Three Thousand Selected Quotations from Brilliant Writers — Wikisource

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