Sooner or later we must absorb Islam if our own culture is not to die of anemia. - Basil Bunting

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The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Basil Bunting

Sooner or later we must absorb Islam if our own culture is not to die of anemia.

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