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God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.

— Karen Blixen

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I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills.

Out of Africa (1937)

The best of my nature reveals itself in play, and play is sacred.

On Modern Marriage and Other Observations (1986)

The entire being of a woman is a secret which should be kept.

Last Tales (1957)

Human talk is a centrifugal function, ever in flight outwards from what is on the talker's mind.

Winter's Tales (1942)

Man and woman are two locked caskets, of which each contains the key to the other.

Winter's Tales (1942)

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Most intellectual people do not believe in God, but they fear him just the same.

Wilhelm Reich Philosophy : An Introduction to the Art of Wondering (2005)

When the mind is not dissipated upon extraneous things, nor diffused over the world about us through the senses, it withdraws within itself, and of its own accord ascends to the contemplation of God.

Basil of Caesarea

Once you accept the existence of God — however you define him, however you explain your relationship to him — then you are caught forever with his presence in the center of all things.

Morris West The Clowns of God (1981)

God seeks comrades and claims love,
the Devil seeks slaves and claims obedience.

Rabindranath Tagore Fireflies (1928)

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