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Certainty always produces questions, uncertainty statements. It is a balancing law of nature.
Djuna Barnes
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Djuna Barnes
Age: 90 †
Born: 1892
Born: June 12
Died: 1982
Died: June 18
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Cornwall on Hudson
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I talk too much because I have been made so miserable by what you are keeping hushed.
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