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“For I say this is death and the sole death,-- When a man's loss comes to him from his gain, Darkness from light, from knowledge ignorance, And lack of love from love made manifest.”
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- Source:
- A Death in the Desert.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 6c3966d71833f4be81e886cf73a49b3a171b9816e1039bc2e6a2a6812e155c64
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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