Creation Quote by Miles Franklin

“Our greatest heart-treasure is a knowledge that there is in creation an individual to whom our existence is necessary - some one who is part of our life as we are part of theirs, some one in whose life we feel assured our death would leave a gap for a day or two.”

Miles Franklin

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the way to wean any one from a desire is not by condemnation of it.

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