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The enslaver is enslaved, the hater, harmed.

Marianne Moore

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Marianne Moore
Age: 84 †
Born: 1887
Born: November 15
Died: 1972
Died: February 5
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Marianne Moore
Marianne Craig Moore
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Honesty - however dangerous - should be as valuable as radium it seems to me.
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The weak overcomes its/ menace, the strong over-/comes itself.
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You are not male nor female, but a plan deep-set within the heart of man.
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Fanaticism? No. Writing is exciting and baseball is like writing. You can never tell with either how it will go.
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The heart that gives, gathers.
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What is our innocence, What is our guilt? All are naked, none is safe.
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When you take my time, you take something I had meant to use.
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repression, however, is not the most obvious characteristic of the sea the sea is a collector, quick to return a rapacious look.
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that which is impossible to force, it is impossible to hinder.
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