I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not.
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Everyone should be forcibly transplanted to another continent from their family at the age of three.
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Dear, I can't write, it's all a fantasy: a kind of circling obsession.
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There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true!
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