“If you start the day reading the obituaries, you live your day a little differently.”
Source: Love Is the Higher Law
“Read your own obituary notice; they say you live longer. Gives you second wind. New lease of life.”
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James Joyce
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Ulysses
Source: Ulysses
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Irish novelist and poet 1882–1941Related quotes
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