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If we consider eternity, into that time never entered eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period and eternity had been the same as it is, though time had never been.

John Donne

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John Donne
Died: 1631
Died: March 31
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So, so, break off this last lamenting kiss, Which sucks two souls, and vapors both away.
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