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What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance?

Djuna Barnes

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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
Easing
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Endurance
Ruin
Inequality
Ruins
Time

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