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For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.

Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
Author
Farmer
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Henry County
Kentucky
Wendell Berry
Wendell Erdman Berry
Sin
Suffering
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Endless

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To live, we must daily break the body and shed the blood of Creation. When we do this knowingly, lovingly, skillfully, reverently, it is a sacrament. When we do it ignorantly, greedily, clumsily, destructively, it is a desecration. In such desecration we condemn ourselves to spiritual and moral loneliness, and others to want.
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The river and the garden have been the foundations of my economy here. Of the two I have liked the river best. It is wonderful to have the duty of being on the river the first and last thing every day. I have loved it even in the rain. Sometimes I have loved it most in the rain.
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Let me say and not mourn: the world lives in the death of speech and sings there.
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When the possessions and households of citizens are no longer honored by the acts, as well as the principles, of their government, then the concentration camp ceases to be one of the possibilities of human nature and becomes one of its likelihoods.
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The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often lacking.
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Some nights in the midst of this loneliness I swung among the scattered stars at the end of the thin thread of faith alone.
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If the crop of any one year was all, a man would have to cut his throat every time it hailed.
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Love is what carries you, for it is always there, even in the dark, or most in the dark, but shining out at times like gold stitches in a piece of embroidery.
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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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The teachers are everywhere. What is wanted is a learner.
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