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I had got this far, and was thinking of what to say next, and as my habit is, i was pricking the paper idly with my pen. and i thought how, between one dip of the pen and the next, time goes on, and i hurry, drive myself, and speed toward death. we are always dying. i while i write, you while you read, and others while they listen or stop their ears, they are all dying.
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I Had Got This Far, And Was

Petrarch
I had got this far, and was thinking of what to say next, and as my habit is, i was pricking the paper idly with my pen. and i thought how, between one dip of the pen and the next, time goes on, and i hurry, drive myself, and speed toward death. we are always dying. i while i write, you while you read, and others while they listen or stop their ears, they are all dying.
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