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At night make me one with the darkness In the morning make me one with the light.

Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
Author
Farmer
Novelist
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Writer
Henry County
Kentucky
Wendell Berry
Wendell Erdman Berry
Night
Light
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