"Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep."
-Carl Sandburg
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"Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.“
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"I've written some poetry I don't understand myself."
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"I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image."
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