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Mary Oliver Quotes: Things take the time they take.Don't worry.How many roads did St. Augustine follow before he became St. Augustine?
         

Things take the time they take.Don't worry.How many roads did St. Augustine follow before he became St. Augustine?


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Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.



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You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.



In this universe we are given two gifts: the ability to love and the ability to question. Which are, at the same time, the fires that warm us and the fires that scorch us.

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You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life.





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