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Often we ask ourselves to make absolute sense out of what just happens, and in this way, what we are practicing is suffering, which everybody practices, but strangely few of us grow graceful in.

Tony Hoagland

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Tony Hoagland
Age: 64 †
Born: 1953
Born: November 19
Died: 2018
Died: October 23
Poet
Writer
Fort Bragg
North Carolina
Anthony Dey Hoagland
Practice
Practicing
Suffering
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Absolutes
Sense
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Everybody
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