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If I had my life to live over again, I would form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practice, as it were, the remembrance of death. There is not another practice which so intensifies life. Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life.
If I had my life to live over again, I would form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practice, as it were, the remembrance of death. There is not another practice which so intensifies life. Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life.
Approximate author period: c. 1962 AD · modern
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- Muriel Spark
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- Approximate author period: c. 1962 AD · modern
Approximate period for the recorded attribution to Muriel Spark, based on documented lifetime 1918 to 2006. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q233956 (checked 2026-10-08). This is not a quotation composition date or independent authentication of its attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q233956 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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