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Glances Quote by Robert Bly

“You have an utterly sincere glance when you look around after you are shipwrecked. You weep a long time on an island when you realize what's happened to you.” quote by Robert Bly — Download Open image

“You have an utterly sincere glance when you look around after you are shipwrecked. You weep a long time on an island when you realize what's happened to you.”

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Glances Happened Islands Long Long time Looks Realizing Sincere Time

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So here I sit in the early candle-light of old age-I and my book-casting backward glances over out travel'd road.

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