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No individual life is an end in itself. One can live fully only by participating fully in the succession of the generations, in death as well as in life. Some would say (and I am one of them) that we can live fully only by making ourselves answerable to the claims of eternity as to those of time.

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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Protest that endures, I think, is moved by a hope far more modest than that of public success: namely, the hope of preserving qualities in one's own heart and spirit that would be destroyed by acquiescence.
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The world is so full and abundant it is like a pregnant woman carrying a child in one arm and leading another by the hand. Every puddle in the lane is ringed with sipping butterflied that fly up in flutter when you walk past in the late morning on your way to get the mail.
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Charity even for one person does not make sense except in terms of an effort to love all Creation in response to the Creator's love for it.
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Praise ignorance, for what man has not encountered he has not destroyed.
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We live beyond words, as also we live beyond computation and beyond theory.
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It is understood that nonhuman creatures adapt to their places or they don't live. And for some reason that I can't figure out, even the biologists have excused our own species from that obligation. I think there's going to be a biological penalty to be paid for that eventually.
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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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My wish simply is to live my life as fully as I can. In both our work and our leisure, I think, we should be so employed. And in our time this means that we must save ourselves from the products that we are asked to buy in order, ultimately, to replace ourselves.
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The presence of the present has become insistent, undeniable, and I dare not look away.
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Those who say Islam is a warlike religion must ask if Christianity has been as well.
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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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Unless you absolutely have got to do it, don’t buy anything new.
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And the world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles, no matter how long, but only by a spiritual journey, a journey of one inch, very arduous and humbling and joyful, by which we arrive at the ground at our own feet, and learn to be at home.
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The mind that is not baffled, is unemployed
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We are alive within mystery, by miracle... We have more than we can know. We know more than we can say.
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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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Having hope is hard harder when you get older.
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This massive ascendancy of corporate power over democratic process is probably the most ominous development since the end of World War II, and for the most part the free world seems to be regarding it as merely normal.
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A significant part of the pleasure of eating is in one’s accurate consciousness of the lives and the world from which food comes.
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