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She was a music I no longer heard, that rang in my mind, itself and nothing else, lost to all sense, but not perished, not perished.

She was a music I no longer heard, that rang in my mind, itself and nothing else, lost to all sense, but not perished, not perished.
– Marilynne Robinson

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