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The sea has this contradictory quality, that the more you see of it, the more it overwhelms the eye and disappears in its own brightness. Like a flame, whose meaning is light but whose centre is dark, it demands to be undefined.
Alice Oswald
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Alice Oswald
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: August 31
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Alice Priscilla Lyle Keen
Alice Priscilla Lyle Oswald
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Flame
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