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...a book, a real book, language incarnate, becomes a part of one's bodily life.

…a book, a real book, language incarnate, becomes a part of one’s bodily life.
– Wendell Berry

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  1. There are only two reasons to farm: because you have to, and because you love to. The ones who choose to farm choose for love. – Wendell Berry
  2. You know it’s real when reality becomes a dream, the dream becomes real, and real feels unreal – Evy Michaels
  3. The freedom of affluence opposes and contradicts the freedom of community life. – Wendell Berry
  4. The shoddy work of despair, the pointless work of pride, equally betray Creation. They are wastes of life. – Wendell Berry
  5. Music is the language of the heart, the language of the soul, the language of nature and the language of the universe. – Debasish Mridha
  6. Books were a dependable pleasure. I read more then than I ever was able to read again until now when I am too old to work much and am mostly alone. – Wendell Berry
  7. The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling. – Wendell Berry
  8. Eating is an agricultural act. – Wendell Berry
  9. Thinking is the most overrated human activity. – Wendell Berry
  10. The significance – and ultimately the quality – of the work we do is determined by our understanding of the story in which we are taking part. – Wendell Berry
  11. People who own the world outright for profit will have to be stopped by influence, by power, by us. – Wendell Berry
  12. He imagines a necessary joy in things that must fly to eat. – Wendell Berry
  13. She was another gift, surely, to us all. She was a happiness that made me cry. – Wendell Berry
  14. Novelty is a new kind of loneliness. – Wendell Berry
  15. Perhaps all the good that ever has come here has come because people prayed it into the world. – Wendell Berry
  16. Oh Lord, make us ableTo eat all that’s on this table,And if there’s some we haven’t gotBring it to us while it’s hot – Wendell Berry
  17. And so I learned about grief, and about the absence and emptiness that for a long time make grief unforgettable. – Wendell Berry
  18. And his words fell upon the table like a blessing. – Wendell Berry
  19. The crisis of community has its source in the corruption of character. – Wendell Berry
  20. There comes . . . a longing never to travel again except on foot. – Wendell Berry
  21. Industrial medicine is as little interested in ecological health as is industrial agriculture. (Health Is Membership, pg. 98) – Wendell Berry
  22. Respect, I think, always implies imagination – the ability to see one another, across our inevitable differences, as living souls. – Wendell Berry
  23. The Earth is what we all have in common. – Wendell Berry
  24. Grandmam came back from that distance in time that separates grandmothers from their grandchildren and made herself a mother to me. – Wendell Berry
  25. When you meet the real problems of life, think of the real lessons of life for the real lessons of life are in the real problems of life – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
  26. Burning Woman is a powerful image. A role model. A metaphor. A warning. A source of power. She is Feminine power incarnate. – Lucy H Pearce
  27. The first sign that Karma was now in cahoots with the Devil Incarnate to ruin her existance should’ve been before sunrise and pre-coffee. – Kelly Moran
  28. Justice, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. Some see an innocent victim. Others will see evil incarnate getting exactly what’s deserved. – Emily Thorne
  29. What lies beyond the wormhole … is the devil incarnate. – Chris Burton
  30. If she had not been imprudence incarnate, she would not have acted as she did when she met Henchard by accident a day or two later. – Thomas Hardy
  31. If you are a pastor there is no way you can lose faith without losing face, you are considered the devil incarnate by your former congregation – Bangambiki Habyarimana
  32. Nefarious purposes translation: For disgusting demon sex and the birth of the Devil incarnate. Nice. – Elle Casey
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  35. I threatened him with bodily harm. He promised to bring me cake for the rest of my life. – Chris Cannon
  36. The language of marriage is often a language of ownership, not a language of partnership. – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  37. All women speak two languages:-¨the language of men-¨and the language of silent suffering.-¨ Some women speak a third,-¨the language of queens. – Mohja Kahf
  38. Language comes first. It’s not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven’t got language, you can’t be conscious. – Alan Moore
  39. The German language is so sonorous, isn’t it? Beautiful language…the language of poetry. Angry, angry poetry. – John Oliver
  40. Micro: Letters create words. Words create language. Language, we are told, permits knowledge & expression. Language is what we are. Are we jailed? – Anthony North

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