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Jane Hirshfield Quotes: Perimeter is not meaning, but it changes meaning, /as wit increases distance, and compassion erodes it.
         

Perimeter is not meaning, but it changes meaning, /as wit increases distance, and compassion erodes it.


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Perimeter is not meaning, but it changes meaning, /as wit increases distance, and compassion erodes it.
         



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