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Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.
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Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
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You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.
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After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
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Mirrors are the doors through which Death comes and goes.
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The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
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Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.
Gloria Steinem
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Born:
July 5, 1889
Died:
October 11, 1963
(aged 74)
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