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distant Quotes

Six of the best book quotes about distant
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“You, God, who live next door-- If at times, through the long night, I trouble you with my urgent knocking-- this is why: I hear you breathe so seldom.”
Rainer Maria Rilke
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God
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The Book of Hours
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importunity
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“God, who can hold you? To yourself alone belonging, by no owner’s hand disturbed, you are like unripened wine that unperturbed grows ever sweeter and is all alone.”
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“Well some days it’s not true. Maybe today you’re more in love with magic. I like being able to tell the difference, it makes the days it is true mean something.”
Sarah Borden
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“As we bounced along the dirt road winding through the hills, I could distinctly hear the rhythm of drums and see fires on the distant mountains. Mrs. Allen, who was with us, explained that in the 1940’s devout members of the Catholic faith considered the Voodoo rites an abomination of their faith.”
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“He was so cut off from them that even if they were standing beside his bed they would be as distant as if they were ten thousand miles away.”
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″‘Distant hills are always green,’ and the best gold further on.”

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