It is impossible to prefigure the salvation of the world in the same l…

Wendell Berry
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It is impossible to prefigure the salvation of the world in the same language by which the world has been dismembered and defaced. ✨ Wendell Berry, Morris Allen Grubbs (2007). Conversations with Wendell Berry, p.172, Univ. Press of Mississippi
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It is impossible to prefigure the salvation of the world in the same language by which the world has been dismembered and defaced. ✨ Wendell Berry, Morris Allen Grubbs (2007). Conversations with Wendell Berry, p.172, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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