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We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.

Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
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Henry County
Kentucky
Wendell Berry
Wendell Erdman Berry
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So, friends, every day do something that won't compute...Give your approval to all you cannot understand...Ask the questions that have no answers. Put your faith in two inches of humus that will build under the trees every thousand years...Laugh. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts....Practice resurrection.
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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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Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy.
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The constructions of language, which is to say the constructions of thought, are formed within experience, not the other way around.
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The mercy of the world is you don't know what's going to happen.
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