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For so many centuries, the exchange of gifts has held us together. It has made it possible to bridge the abyss where language struggles.

Barry Lopez

The gaze of the wolf reached into our soul.
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Gaze Reach Soul Wolf
The most intelligent thing we can do is love, not reason.
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Intelligence Love Reason
People think that if you’ve written a book and somebody’s given you a pat on the back then, you know, it’s all – you’re all settled, you know? You’re going to be fine. I know that if I’m not confused, and really afraid, my work isn’t going to be any good.
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Book Confused Thinking
Throughout the centuries we have projected on to the wolf the qualities we most despise and fear in ourselves.
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Century Despise Quality
We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it.
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Admit Courage Place Universe
For so many centuries, the exchange of gifts has held us together. It has made it possible to bridge the abyss where language struggles.
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Inspirational Motivational Struggle
You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.
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Expression Inspirational Life Light
The opposite of love is not hate; it’s indifference. To be indifferent is to not express love.
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Hate Love Opposites
One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse.
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Contradiction Inspirational Life Middle
There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions.
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Answers Inspirational Life
If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding and accepts responsibility for a life lived in the midst of such paradox.
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Adults Inspirational Life Responsibility
The writer works on the inside and the critic works on the outside. I don’t know what it looks like on the outside, sometimes. It’s not that I’m not interested-it’s not where I live. I live inside the story.
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Looks Stories Writing
It is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.
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Giving Imagination Wise
The wolf exerts a powerful influence on the human imagination. It takes your stare and turns it back on you
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Imagination Influence Powerful
The attempt to close the gap between what is known and what IS, is the temptation behind the apple in Genesis.
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Apples Attempt Gap Temptation
There’s so much to be afraid of.
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Afraid Ashamed Much

For so many centuries, the exchange of gifts has held us together. It has made it possible to bridge the abyss where language struggles.

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