"What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever."

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"What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever."

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"Oh, I'm not afraid of death! What have I got to live for after all? I suppose you believe it's very wrong to kill a person who has injured you-even if they've taken away everything you had in the world?"

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Emily Dickinson, American Poet

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