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When death threatens, when a good-bye is faced, how one searches the past for images, begins to shoal up the past for future use.

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Cry for joy in April,
Cry for death in fall.
Birth's an open gateway,
But death's a solid wall.


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At fourteen you don't need sickness or death for tragedy.

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Kissing was like death from lightning. If it happened, you didn't know it. And vice versa.

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Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection; the past then lives in your words and you are free.

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Every arrival foretells a leave-taking: every birth a death. Yet each death and departure comes to us as a surprise, a sorrow never anticipated. Life is a long series of farewells; only the circumstances should surprise us.

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Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret. You are looking into a predator's eyes. Most predators have eyes set right on the front of their heads, so they can use binocular vision to sight and track their prey.
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Jessamyn West

Jessamyn West

Born: July 18, 1902
Died: February 23, 1984 (aged 81)
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