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Quotation from Christ Legends by Selma Lagerlöf
“There are things which are drier than the desert sands, but there is nothing more barren than the human heart.”
Christ Legends, The Wise Men's Well, trans. Velma Swanston Howard (1908)
The Drought gloats as he tells how the wise men turned away from the poor Child in the cave.
Citation: "There are things which are drier than the desert sands, but there is nothing more barren than the human heart." — Selma Lagerlöf, Christ Legends, The Wise Men's Well, trans. Velma Swanston Howard (1908). (id christ-legends-q5)
Portrait: Atelje Jaeger - Selma Lagerlöf 1928, Atelier Jaeger, Public domain.
