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I don't actually believe in the extension of consciousness after death.

Zadie Smith

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Zadie Smith
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: October 27
Essayist
Novelist
Writer
London
England
Zadie Adeline Smith
Consciousness
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Death
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