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      "text": "Instructions for living a life:\n\nPay attention.\n\nBe astonished.\n\nTell about it.",
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      "text": "Two or three times in my life I discovered love.\n\nEach time it seemed to solve everything.\n\nEach time it solved a great many things\n\nbut not everything.\n\nYet left me as grateful as if it had indeed, and\n\nthoroughly, solved everything.",
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      "text": "So every day\n\nI was surrounded by the beautiful crying forth\n\nof the ideas of God,one of which was you.",
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      "text": "I don't know what God is.\n\nI don't know what death is.But I believe they have between them\n\nsome fervent and necessary arrangement.",
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      "text": "Death waits for me, I know it, around\n\none corner or another.\n\nThis doesn't amuse me.\n\nNeither does it frighten me. After the rain, I went back into the field of sunflowers.\n\nIt was cool, and I was anything but drowsy.\n\nI walked slowly, and listened to the crazy roots, in the drenched earth, laughing and growing.",
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      "text": "then you too are a dream which last night and the night before that\n\nand the years before that\n\nyou were not.",
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