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Time is the River on which the leaves of our thoughts are carried into oblivion.
Doris Lessing
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Doris Lessing
Age: 94 †
Born: 1919
Born: October 22
Died: 2013
Died: November 17
Autobiographer
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Doris May Tayler
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