Birth Quote by Peter Matthiessen

““Life begins before a soul is born and commences once again with the act of dying, and as in the Afro-Asian symbol of the snake of eternity swallowing its tail, all is in flux, all comes full circle, with no beginning and no end.””

Peter Matthiessen

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