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Yes, we who are full to the gorge with misery should look well around, doubting everything seen, done, spoken, precisely because we have a word for it, and not its alchemy

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Djuna Barnes
Age: 90 †
Born: 1892
Born: June 12
Died: 1982
Died: June 18
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Writer
Cornwall on Hudson
New York
Lydia Steptoe
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Doubting
Around
Alchemy
Look
Spoken
Wells
Precisely
Everything
Misery
Well
Doubt
Looks
Full
Gorge
Done
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Gorges

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