"The life in which nothing happens goes the fastest, because it has no landmarks."

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Source : Katharine Tynan (1919). “The Years of the Shadow”

Katharine Tynan

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Source : Margaret M. Lock (2002). “Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death”, p.203, Univ of California Press
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