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John Fowles - To write poetry and to commit suicide,...
To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape. (John Fowles)

To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape.

John Fowles

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