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“Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.”
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- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.60
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 0b773beb8f0ff6c09e3d8d1ee9fa7ba4bb8ee79ce3c15cf2fc6ee2a4b16be1f1
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