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I remember my grandfather telling me how each of us must live with a full measure of loneliness that is inescapable, and we must not destroy ourselves with our passion to escape the aloneness.

Jim Harrison

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Jim Harrison
Age: 78 †
Born: 1937
Born: December 11
Died: 2016
Died: March 26
Author
Essayist
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Poet
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Grayling
Michigan
James Harrison
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Full
Aloneness
Passion
Inescapable
Remember
Grandfather
Live
Escape
Must
Loneliness
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