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I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

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Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.

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A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.

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Music is only love looking for words.

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No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.

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There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.

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For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination.

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

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History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.

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A city becomes a world when one loves one of its inhabitants.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Writer

Born: January 27th, 1912

Died: November 7th, 1990

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