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Henry Van Dyke Quotes: How fascinating is death, the extinction of life. One moment here and the next gone. The light put out and only the empty bag of the body left.
         

How fascinating is death, the extinction of life. One moment here and the next gone. The light put out and only the empty bag of the body left.


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