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“The thing we long for, that we are For one transcendent moment.”
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- Source:
- Longing.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- c661fd9ecba9322ad790f872ed43a994785df022157691849022f74bc28bb1ff
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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