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Sunday, September 1, 2013

That Sense of Exile

“We all long for [Eden], and we are constantly glimpsing it: our whole nature at its best and least corrupted, its gentlest and most humane, is still soaked with the sense of ‘exile’. ” 

The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, 110


HT: The Thinklings