Knowing you are alive is watching on every side your generation's shor…

Annie Dillard
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Knowing you are alive is watching on every side your generation's short time falling away as fast as rivers drop through air, and feeling it hit. ✨ Annie Dillard (2016). The Abundance, p.69, Canongate Books
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