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In the most remote parts there were people who had lived alone in caves for many years, walking down to their nearest village only when they ran out of food. Asked which practice he followed, and whether he chanted or meditated, one of the hermits replied, “I just pass the time.”
~ Isobel Colgate, A Pelican in the Wilderness (8)
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