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Your life is the one place you have to spend yourself fully--wild, generous, drastic--in an unrationed profligacy of self ... and in that split second when you understand that you finally are about to die-to uncreate the world no time to do it over no more chances--that instant when you realize your conscious existence is truly flaring nova, won't you want to have used up all-all-the splendor that you are?
-Robin Morgan
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Your Life Is The One Place You

Robin Morgan
Your life is the one place you have to spend yourself fully--wild, generous, drastic--in an unrationed profligacy of self ... and in that split second when you understand that you finally are about to die-to uncreate the world no time to do it over no more chances--that instant when you realize your conscious existence is truly flaring nova, won't you want to have used up all-all-the splendor that you are?
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