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I think this is one of the benefits of getting older: that one has that perspective on things farther away. One is so caught up in middle years in the idea of accomplishing something when, in fact, the full accomplishment is always with one.
W. S. Merwin
W. S. Merwin
W. S. Merwin
Born: Sep 30, 1927

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