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“To live is so startling, it leaves but little room for other occupations.”

— Emily Dickinson

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Source

Title
Wikiquote: Emily Dickinson
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Context

Letter to T. W. Higginson (late 1872); Letters (1958) p. 380, no. 381

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Dickinson, Emily. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Emily Dickinson. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Emily_Dickinson

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