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Attention

To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work. – Mary Oliver Attention – disguised generosity, rare and pure gift of desire. No desire, no gift; but, depuis mon enfance, Simone said, she longed for, desired endlessly the wordless in wordless infancy. 2004 Fall

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Date: 6/27/2016 8:15:00 PM
is this Mary's work??? Anyways. thank you for sharing, skat
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Gerald Buss
Date: 6/28/2016 10:12:00 AM
Top line is by Mary Oliver. Rest is mine but includes citations from the work of Simone Weil.

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