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title: "8 Great Wind Quotes by 7 authors"
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> [A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-genet/a-great-wind-swept-over-the-ghetto-carrying-away-shame-invisibility/)

[Jean Genet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-genet/)

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> [“A great wind is blowing and that either gives you imagination...or a headache.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/catherine-the-great/a-great-wind-is-blowing-and-that-either-gives-you-imagination-or-a/)

[Catherine the Great](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/catherine-the-great/)

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> [“It's as if you've been walking against a great wind all your life, and then the wind is gone, and you can't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-morrow-lindbergh/it-s-as-if-you-ve-been-walking-against-a-great-wind-all-your-life-and/)

[Anne Morrow Lindbergh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-morrow-lindbergh/)

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> [How long will you say these things, and the words of yourmouth be a great wind?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/how-long-will-you-say-these-things-and-the-words-of-yourmouth-be-a/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [“Thus the great wind, the afflatus, gave breath and turbulence to all life; and inspiration clung to the minds and hearts of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-beckham-ii/thus-the-great-wind-the-afflatus-gave-breath-and-turbulence-to-all/)

[Richard Beckham II](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-beckham-ii/)

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> [A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/catherine-the-great/a-great-wind-is-blowing-and-that-gives-you-either-imagination-or-a/)

[Catherine the Great](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/catherine-the-great/)

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> [“Winter reaches its peak not when a great wind screams from the top of its lungs, but when a lazy breeze whispers…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shivaraj-konanavar/winter-reaches-its-peak-not-when-a-great-wind-screams-from-the-top-of/)

[Shivaraj Konanavar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shivaraj-konanavar/)

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> [“And so they stood on the walls of the City of Gondor, and a great wind rose and blew, and their hair,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-r-r-tolkien/and-so-they-stood-on-the-walls-of-the-city-of-gondor-and-a-great-wind/)

[J.R.R. Tolkien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-r-r-tolkien/)

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