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Annie Dillard Quotes: I break up through the skin of awareness a thousand times a day, as dolphins burst through seas, and dive again, and rise, and dive.
         

I break up through the skin of awareness a thousand times a day, as dolphins burst through seas, and dive again, and rise, and dive.


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