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It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive failure of imagination... if we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldnt believe the world existed.
-Annie Dillard
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It Could Be That Our Faithlessness Is

Annie Dillard
It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive failure of imagination... if we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldnt believe the world existed.
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