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No matter how much one may love the world as a whole, one can live fully in it only by living responsibly in some small part of it. Where we live and ...more

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This is the man who will be my grandfather—the man who will be the man who was my grandfather. The tenses slur and slide under the pressure of collaps...more

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Time doesn't stop. Your life doesn't stop and wait until you get ready to start living it.

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History overflows time. Love overflows the allowance of the world. All the vessels overflow, and no end or limit stays put. Every shakable thing has g...more

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Back there in the beginning, as I see now, my life was all time and almost no memory. Though I knew early of death, it still seemed to be something th...more

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But love, sooner or later, forces us out of time. It does not accept that limit. Of all that we feel and do, all the virtues and all the sins, love al...more

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We have lived our lives by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. We have been wrong. We must change our lives so that ...more

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I come into the peace of wild thingswho do not tax their lives with forethoughtof grief. I come into the presence of still water.And I feel above me t...more

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The Peace of Wild ThingsWhen despair for the world grows in meand I wake in the night at the least soundin fear of what my life and my children’s live...more