You and I, it's as though we have been taught to kiss in heaven and sent down to earth together, to see if we know what we were taught.
("Doctor Zhivago")
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Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time, Be crushed by the spirit of light.
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