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Memory, that library of the soul from which I will draw knowledge and experience for the rest of my life.

Tove Ditlevsen

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Tove Ditlevsen
Age: 57 †
Born: 1918
Born: December 14
Died: 1976
Died: March 7
Autobiographer
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Writer
København
Tove Irma Margit Ditlevsen
Memory
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Experience
Soul
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Life
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my childhood grew thin and flat, paperlike. It was tired and threadbare, and in low moments it didn't look like it would last until I was grown up.
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