My life closed twice before its close; It yet remains to see If Immortality unveil A third event to me, So huge, so hopeless to conceive, As these that twice befell. Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell.

Emily Dickinson
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These lines from the poem by William Blake speak to the idea that life is a cycle, a never-ending circle of events which repeat themselves. We do not know what the end of life is like because we have not experienced it. We only know that life ends and then begins again. This cycle of death and rebirth is one that we must all endure; whether we are living or dead.

Source: Dickinson: Poems

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