J. R. R. Tolkien quote: We all long for Eden, and we are constantly glimpsing it: our whole nature at its best and least corrupted, ...

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

~ J. R. R. Tolkien ~

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