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Prayers and love are learned in the hour when prayer has become impossible and your heart has turned to stone.

Prayers and love are learned in the hour when prayer has become impossible and your heart has turned to stone.

Approximate author period: c. 1915 AD · modern

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Thomas Mann
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Approximate author period: c. 1915 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1875 to 1955; Wikidata Q37030, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q37030 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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