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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": "Instructions for living a life:\n\nPay attention.\n\nBe astonished.\n\nTell about it.",
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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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