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To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is…at last, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away….
—Virginia Woolf
To come home you must learn echolocation, like a bat. Then you call your ownself out into the dark.
—Ruth Thompson
She’s through! She’s through! Into the abyss Into bliss a twist at the end of the road a translation dark night become the radiant way.
—George Ella Lyon
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