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Memory lived not in initial possession but in the freed hands, pardoned and freed, and in the heart that can empty but fill again, in the patterns restored by dreams.
Memory lived not in initial possession but in the freed hands, pardoned and freed, and in the heart that can empty but fill again, in the patterns restored by dreams.
Approximate author period: c. 1955 AD · modern
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- Eudora Welty
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- Approximate author period: c. 1955 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1909 to 2001; Wikidata Q259364, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q259364 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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