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The universe is illusion merely, not one speck of it real, and we are not only its victims, falling always into or smashed by a planet slung by the sun-but also its captives, bound by the mineral-made ropes of our senses.

Annie Dillard

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Annie Dillard
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: April 30
Author
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
University Teacher
Writer
Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
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Always
Merely
Victims
Mineral
Planets
Bound
Ropes
Sun
Falling
Speck
Universe
Bounds
Smashed
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Senses
Specks
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Minerals
Made
Illusion
Rope
Slung

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