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Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but

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"Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life"

- Thomas Merton

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This quote is written / told by Thomas Merton between January 31, 1915 and December 10, 1968. He/she was a famous Author from USA. The author also have 33 other quotes.

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