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The past is not a package one can lay away.

Emily Dickinson

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Emily Dickinson
Age: 55 †
Born: 1830
Born: December 10
Died: 1886
Died: May 15
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Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
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I dwell in Possibility A fairer house than Prose More numerous of Windows Superior — for Doors.
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Anger as soon as fed is dead- 'Tis starving makes it fat.
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Enough is so vast a sweetness I suppose it never occurs.
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His Cheek is his Biographer- As long as he can blush.
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After a hundred years Nobody knows the place, Agony, that enacted there, Motionless as peace.
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