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It is difficult to undo our own damage, and to recall to our presence that which we have asked to leave.
Annie Dillard
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Annie Dillard
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: April 30
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Books swept me away, this way and that, one after the other I made endless vows according to their lights for I believed them.
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We are most deeply asleep at the switch when we fancy we control any switches at all.
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