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"I mean that we here are on the wrong side of the tapestry,' answered Father Brown. 'The things that happen here do not seem to mean anything; they mean something somewhere else. Somewhere else retribution will come on the real offender. Here it often seems to fall on the wrong person."
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"When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility."
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