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When the time comes I will go joyfully. Whatever may be there, it will be real, without complication, without ridicule, without deception.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

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Isaac Bashevis Singer
Age: 87 †
Born: 1904
Born: July 14
Died: 1991
Died: July 24
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