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Life is grace. Sleep is forgiveness. The night absolves. Darkness wipes the slate clean, not spotless to be sure, but clean enough for another day's chalking.
Life is grace. Sleep is forgiveness. The night absolves. Darkness wipes the slate clean, not spotless to be sure, but clean enough for another day's chalking.
Approximate author period: c. 1974 AD · modern
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- Frederick Buechner
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- Approximate author period: c. 1974 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1926 to 2022; Wikidata Q1452807, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1452807 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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