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I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle from it limp wherever it takes you.
I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle from it limp wherever it takes you.
Approximate author period: c. 1945 AD · modern
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- Annie Dillard
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- Approximate author period: c. 1945 AD · modern
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