"It was when I was happiest that I longed most...The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing...to find the place where all the beauty came from."

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"And that is why all religion is about absence. Because once the gods were there. And that is why all poetry and music strike us with this awful longing for what once was ours--because it begins in regions of the brain where once the gods made themselves heard."

S. Faulkes, Human Tissue, 453.