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Go as far as you dare in the heart of a lonely land, you cannot go so far that life and death are not before you.
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None other than this long brown land lays such a hold on the affections. The rainbow hills, the tender bluish mists, the luminous radiance of the spring, have the lotus charm.
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Some day the world will understand that, and the little oases on the windy tops of hills will harbor for healing its ailing, house-weary broods.
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For all the toll the desert takes of a man it gives compensations, deep breaths, deep sleep, and the communion of the stars.