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No It Won’t
I don’t think that quotation means what we think it means. Beauty will not save the world and anyway Dostoevsky didn’t say it and anyways
Take Up Do
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All You Can Eat Adultery
I get all the adultery I want. It’s true. Ask Michele. Thing is, I don’t want any. You may have guessed this, but others may
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The great story is the search by the lover for the beloved. I love M. I am in love with M. [angry as well; in
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You have asked me how to pursue learning. I pass this along in response — Move from the easier to the difficult Be cautious of speech Be
Pray Attention
… am reading Ron Hansen’s Hotly in Pursuit of the Real and so for a moment do you then read with me. The title is from
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