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Whenever anybody whom we love dies, we discover that although death is commonplace it is terribly original. We may have thought about it all our lives, but if it comes close to us, it is quite a new, strange thing to us, for which we are entirely unprepared. It may, perhaps, not be the bare loss so much as the strength of the bond which is broken that is the surprise, and we are debtors in a way to death for revealing something in us which ordinary life disguises.
– William Hale White (1831 - 1913), better known by his pseudonym 'Mark Rutherford'. White was a British writer and civil servant, who trained for the Congregational Ministry but soon disagreed with their teachings. Clara Hopgood (1896).
