"We are but skin about a wind, with……" — Djuna Barnes
"We are but skin about a wind, with muscles clenched against mortality."
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People with clenched fists can not shake hands.
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We hold each other's lives in our open hands, not in clenched fists.
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The link between intimate violence in the home and the international violence of terrorism and war is as tightly bound…
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Love will not always linger longest with those who hold it in too clenched a fist.
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We cannot sow seeds with clenched fists. To sow we must open our hands.
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