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There are people in the world for whom "coming along" is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
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I thought of the people before me who had looked down at the river and gone to sleep beneath it. I wondered about them. I wondered how they had done it—it, the physical act. I simply wondered about the dead because their days had ended and I did not know how I would get through mine.
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People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state on innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.
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Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.
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Born:
August 2, 1924
Died:
December 1, 1987
(aged 63)
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