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We always feel younger than we are. I carry inside myself my earlier faces, as a tree contains its rings. The sum of them is me. The mirror sees only my latest face, while I know all my previous ones.
Tomas Transtromer
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Tomas Transtromer
Age: 83 †
Born: 1931
Born: April 15
Died: 2015
Died: March 26
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