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sanctum sanctorum

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(Judaism) sanctuary comprised of the innermost chamber of the Tabernacle in the temple of Solomon where the Ark of the Covenant was kept

a place of inviolable privacy

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When I would re-create myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and most interminable and to the citizen, most dismal, swamp. I enter as a sacred place, a Sanctum sanctorum. There is the strength, the marrow, of Nature. Henry David Thoreau

he withdrew to his sanctum sanctorum, where the children could never go Source: Internet

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