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When it comes down to it, even on the natural plane, it is much happier and more enlivening to love than to be loved.
When it comes down to it, even on the natural plane, it is much happier and more enlivening to love than to be loved.
Approximate author period: c. 1938 AD · modern
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- Dorothy Day
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- Approximate author period: c. 1938 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for Dorothy Day: life dates 1897 to 1980. Wikidata Q150281, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q150281 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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