"I have tried as far as I could
to be a comforter in the world,
not through what I know, but
what I don’t-and cannot-know.
I have tried to suggest the
mystery and the magic."
Robert Nathan
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"There is no distance on this
earth as far away as yesterday"
Robert Nathan
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"Give exceeding thanks for
the mystery which remains
a mystery still – the veil
that hides you from the
infinite, which makes it
possible for you to believe
in what you cannot see."
Robert Nathan
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"What I really want is to give
comfort to people in this
wilderness of death and
trouble. And to myself, too.
So, when I can, I take the
poison and hate out of my
books; but I hate, just the
same. I hate violence, and
tyranny, and vulgarity. I
hate despair and destruction,
and the writers who insist
that that is all there is,
there isn’t anything else."
Robert Nathan
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"It seems to me that I have
always wanted to say the same
things in my books: that life is
one, that mystery is all around
us, that yesterday, today and
tomorrow are all spread out in
the pattern of eternity, together,
and that although love may
wear many faces in the
incomprehensible panorama
of time, in the heart that loves
it is always the same."
Robert Nathan
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