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I've been thinking of death a lot, and I am amazed by its inevitability, frightened, as we all are, of the totally unknown, and yet feel a long sleep is somehow earned by those of us who live on the edge.
Jackson Pollock
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Jackson Pollock
Age: 44 †
Born: 1912
Born: January 28
Died: 1956
Died: August 11
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