"Misfortune makes of certain souls a vast desert through which rings the voice of God."
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"The dunes are changed by the wind, but the desert never changes. That's the way it will be with our love for each other"
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"Saving the world was merely a hobby. My *vocation* has been that of inspector of desert water holes."
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"In every heart there should be one grief that is like a well in the desert."
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"Nor waste their sweetness in the desert air."
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"He is the best gentleman that is the son of his own deserts, and not the degenerated heir of another's virtue."
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"Yet the wonder of it all is that, while engaged in a seemingly endless struggle, the Israelis have managed to turn a desert into a garden."
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"A bird, music and food -desert island items"
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"Oh that the desert were my dwelling-place, With one fair spirit for my minister"
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"So you find yourself surrounded by death and horror in the world, and you escape it into lust. But lust has no duration; it leaves you again in the desert."
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"Give unto us this day the daily manna Without which, in this desert where we dwell, He must go backward who would most advance."
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"The desert was held in a crazed communism by which Nature and the elements were for the free use of every known friendly person for his own purposes and no more."
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"When we attempt to define and describe God, both language and thought desert us, and we are as helpless as fools and savages."
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"The problem today is that there are no deserts, only dude ranches."
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"My spirits infallibly rise in proportion to the outward dreariness. Give me the ocean, the desert, or the wilderness!"
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"Ah! What would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before."
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"The desert is no longer a landscape, it is a pure form produced by the abstraction of all others."
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"The desert takes our dreams away from us, and they don't always return."
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"The monomaniac is unlikely to succeed. Most leave only their bleached bones in the roadless desert. But the rest of us, with our multiple interests instead of a single mission, are certain to fail and have no impact at all."
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"Women don't like violence, But when their husbands desert them, that is different."
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