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Lafcadio Hearn

"Some persons have ventured to say that it is only since Englishmen ceased to believe in the Bible that they began to discover how beautiful it was."

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"Some persons have ventured to say that it is only since Englishmen ceased to believe in the Bible that they began to discover how beautiful it was."

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"Whatever your relationship is to your sacred tradition in the West, you have some relationship to the Bible if only through the names of the characters."

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"If you look at the Bible almost everything that was predicted, maybe everything, has come to pass."

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"But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth; that is the happiness of being truly loved."
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