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Marriage began to strike him as a theater, where actors gratefully dissimulate, in ordinary affection and trust, their bottom feeling, which is a mystery too powerful to be endured. They know and feel more than life in time can match; they must anchor themselves against eternity, so they play on a painted set, lest they swing out into the twining realms.
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Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
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Annie Dillard
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April 30, 1945
(age 79)
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