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Sleeping it off at a station.
Were you only passing through?”
Kate Bush (1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer
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“Angels never attack, as infernal spirits do. Angels only ward off and defend.”
— Emanuel Swedenborg, book Arcana Cœlestia
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Arcana Coelestia (1749 - 1756)
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