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Psychology, which explains everything, Explains nothing, And we are still in doubt.

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Marianne Moore
Age: 84 †
Born: 1887
Born: November 15
Died: 1972
Died: February 5
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Kirkwood
Missouri
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Marianne Craig Moore
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Psychology
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If you will tell me why the fen appears impassable, I then will tell you why I think that I can cross it if I try.
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We are what we were at birth, and each trait has remained in conformity with earth's and with heaven's logic: Be the devil's tool, resort to black magic, None can diverge from the ends which Heaven foreordained.
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