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The cockroach and the bird were both here long before we were. Both could.

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Joseph Wood Krutch
Age: 76 †
Born: 1893
Born: November 25
Died: 1970
Died: May 22
Biographer
Journalist
Literary Critic
Naturalist
Theatre Critic
Writer
Knoxville
Tennessee
Cockroaches
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Cockroach

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If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.
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To have passed through life and never experienced solitude is to have never known oneself. To have never known oneself is to have never known anyone.
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