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There was neither horizon, cloud, nor sound of that pink, spread silence even I had become part, belonging as much to sky as to earth.

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Emily Carr
Age: 73 †
Born: 1871
Born: December 13
Died: 1945
Died: March 2
Artist
Autobiographer
Painter
Writer
M. Emily Carr
Emily M. Carr
Klee Wyck
Inspirational
Belonging
Become
Horizon
Part
Clouds
Earth
Spread
Even
Sky
Much
Neither
Life
Silence
Pink
Sound
Cloud

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