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"ref": "1835 September, Fanny Kemble, Journal, volume 1,15, Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blanchard, published 1832, page 90",
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"ref": "1909, Maurice Hewlett, “Leto's Child”, in Artemision, lines 9–11",
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"ref": "1958, Nadine Gordimer, chapter 8, in A World of Strangers, Penguin, published 1962, pages 155–6",
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"text": "2014, Husayn Ilahi-Ghomshei, \"The Symphony of Rūmī\" in Leonard Lewisohn (ed.), The Philosophy of Ecstasy: Rumi and the Sufi Tradition, Bloomington, IN: World Wisdom, Section X, \"The Spirit,\" p. 28, https://books.google.ca/books?id=iMNEBgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false\nThe intellect, [the spirit's] guardian, is tremendously jealous to preserve the girl's honor and so strives to conceal her behind a multitude of veils. Amongst these veils are the body itself which becurtains our soul, and our conversation and words that cloak conceptions and ideas."
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"ref": "2014, Sebastian Barry, Whistling Psyche & Fred and Jane",
"text": "This is the haziest part of my recollection, in that I have been driven in my mind to befog and becurtain such early days that lacked an ambiguity proper to my status now, yet out of that dampening mist and forceful if cloudy horror rose my proper character, with eyes so open they wept in the sunlight, and heart so seared it could do no other than prompt a lifetime of resistance and revolution.",
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"ref": "2015, Leonard Lewisohn, Hafiz and the Religion of Love in Classical Persian Poetry",
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