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The mercy of the world is time. Time does not stop for love, but it does not stop for death and grief, either.
Wendell Berry
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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
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The more local and settled a culture, the better it stays put, the less the damage. It is the foreigner whose road of excess leads to a desert... a man with a machine and inadequate culture... is a pestilence. He shakes more than he can hold.
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After a while, though the grief did not go away from us, it grew quiet. What had seemed a storm wailing through the entire darkness seemed to come in at last and lie down.
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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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You don't need to be told some things. You can sometimes tell more by a man's silence and the set of his head than by what he says.
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Waking up from a dream of violence is much the same as waking up from a dream of love. You must go on living your life.
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If you establish, or reestablish, local economies on the right scale and with the right standard, then politics would come right as a matter of course. I don't know what you'd call the result - probably not capitalism or socialism.
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I thought, He must forebear to reveal His power and glory by presenting Himself as Himself, and must be present only in the ordinary miracle of the existence of His creatures. Those who wish to see Him must see Him in the poor, the hungry, the hurt, the wordless creatures, the groaning and travailing beautiful world.
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How do we submit? By not being radical enough. Or by not being thorough enough, which is the same thing.
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It's kind of alarming for me to realize that, when I'm writing stories about times I remember, it's already historical fiction.
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