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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.

Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
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Henry County
Kentucky
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When the self is ones exclusive subject and limit, reference and measure, one has no choice but to make a world of words.
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Young lovers see a vision of the world redeemed by love. That is the truest thing they ever see, for without it life is death.
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