I could not do this, I realized, if I were immortal. This d… - Dan Simmons

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I could not do this, I realized, if I were immortal. This degree of love of life and of one another is granted, I saw for once and for ever, not to immortals, but to those who live briefly and always under the shadow of death and loss.

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Dan Simmons (born April 4, 1948) is an American science fiction and horror writer.

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