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Before i could read, almost a baby, i imagined that god, this strange thing or person i heard about, was a book.
-Jean Rhys
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Before I Could Read, Almost A Baby,

Jean Rhys
Before i could read, almost a baby, i imagined that god, this strange thing or person i heard about, was a book.
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You will want a book which contains not man's thoughts, but god's - not a book that may amuse you, but a book that can save you - not even a book that can instruct you, but a book on which you can venture an eternity - not only a book which can give relief to your spirit, but redemption to your soul - a book which contains salvation, and conveys it to you, one which shall at once be the saviour's book and the sinner's.
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