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In order to purify yourself, you have to understand yourself, Father Trais went on. Everything out in the world is also in you. Good, bad, evil, perfection, death, everything. So we study our souls.

Louise Erdrich

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Louise Erdrich
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 7
Novelist
Poet
Short Story Writer
Writer
Little Falls
Minnesota
Father
Purify
Death
Souls
Order
Perfection
Also
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Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that.
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I prefer to have some beliefs that don't make logical sense.
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Numbers, time, inches, feet. All are just ploys for cutting nature down to size.
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I spend my time dwelling on revenge and try to deal with the monsters crawling out of the ashes.
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