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"I remember my grandfather telling me how each of us must live with a full measure of loneliness that is inescapable, and we must not destroy ourselves with our passion to escape the aloneness."
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Source: Jim Harrison (2013). “In Search of Small Gods”, p.11, Copper Canyon Press
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