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“Blessed be they whose lives do not taste of evilbut…” quote by Anne Carson — Download Open image

“Blessed be they whose lives do not taste of evilbut if some god shakes your houseruin arrivesruin does not leaveit comes tolling over the generationsit comes rolling the black night salt up from the ocean floorand all your thrashed coasts groan”

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