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It is trust in our vast 'don't know' that allows room for the truth, that allows the next intuition to float to the surface.

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Stephen Levine
Age: 78 †
Born: 1937
Born: July 17
Died: 2016
Died: January 17
Poet
Screenwriter
the United States of America
Stephan Levine
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