“Dust, who is not dust? I am dust. But I am your Member of Parliament, nevertheless.”
Bui Arland
Atómstöðin (The Atom Station) (1948)
“And I know now that all the time I was trying to get
out of the dust,
the fact is,
what I am,
I am because of the dust.
And what I am is good enough.
Even for me.”
—
Karen Hesse
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book
Out of the Dust
Source: Out of the Dust
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