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Nora Gal
Soviet translator, literary critic, and translation theorist.
Born April 27th, 1912 in Odesa.
Died July 23rd, 1991 at 79 years old in Moscow.
When we finally know we are dying, and all other sentient beings are dying with us, we start to have a burning, almost heartbreaking sense of the fragility and preciousness of each moment and each being, and from this can grow a deep, clear, limitless compassion for all beings. Sogyal Rinpoche