"If you sing of beauty though alone in the heart of the desert you will have an audience."
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"The desert, when the sun comes up...I couldn't tell where heaven stopped and the Earth began."
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"The extreme clarity of the desert light is equaled by the extreme individuation of desert life forms. Love flowers best in openness and freedom."
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"When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it."
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"What e'er you are That in this desert inaccessible, Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time."
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"The high desert has an effect on people. The place has a way of swallowing you up."
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"On the one hand, I want to go off and live in the desert with my dog and sculpt things out of adobe."
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"Let each man have according to his deserts."
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"Although love dwells in gorgeous palaces, and sumptuous apartments, more willingly than in miserable and desolate cottages, it cannot be denied but that he sometimes causes his power to be felt in the gloomy recesses of forests, among the most bleak and rugged mountains, and in the dreary caves of a desert."
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"Spirit vibrated into matter; hence, both Spirit and matter exist. Matter, however, does not exist in the way that it appears to us. It exists as we see it owing to the delusive force of maya, which makes the indivisible Spirit seem finite and divisible to all appearances. Matter has existence in the same delusive way as does a mirage in the desert."
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"The Beduin of the desert, born and grown up in it, had embraced with all his sour this nakedness too harsh for volunteers, for the reason, felt but inarticulate, that there he found himself indubitably free."
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"Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life."
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"Much love much trial, but what an utter desert is life without love."
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"For, to make deserts, God, who rules mankind, Begins with kings, and ends the work by wind."
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"A forest is mystery but the desert is truth. Life pared to the bone."
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"Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation deserts the oaths . . . ?"
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"In the evening I go up in the desert and spend hours watching the sun go down, just enjoying it, and every day I go out and watch it again. I draw some and there is a little painting and so the days go by."
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"It is as pleasant as it is unusual to see thoroughly good people getting their deserts."
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"There's a man in the world who is never turned down, whatever he chances to stray; he gets the glad hand in the populous town, or out where the farmers makes hay; he's greeted with pleasure on deserts of sand, and deep in the aisles of the woods; wherever he goes there's a welcoming hand-he's the man who delivers the goods."
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"The keenest pangs the wretched find Are rapture to the dreary void, The leafless desert of the mind, The waste of feelings unemployed."
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