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Susan Glaspell Quotes: What we seek we do not find - that would be too trim and tidy for so reckless and opulent a thing as life. It is something else we find.
         

What we seek we do not find - that would be too trim and tidy for so reckless and opulent a thing as life. It is something else we find.


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