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T. S. Eliot Quotes: It takes so many years to learn that one is dead.
         

It takes so many years to learn that one is dead.


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This page presents the quote "It takes so many years to learn that one is dead.". Author of this quote is T. S. Eliot. This quote is about death, years, dying,.