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Life is beautiful. He who reads that
As in the window of some distant, speeding train
Knows what he wants, and what will befall.
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Most reckless things are beautiful in some way, and recklessness is what makes experimental art beautiful, just as religions are beautiful because of the strong possibilities that they are founded on nothing.
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Much that is beautiful must be discarded So that we may resemble a taller Impression of ourselves.
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Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work—that goes on, it adds up.
Barbara Kingsolver
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Born:
July 28, 1927
Died:
September 3, 2017
(aged 90)
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