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When we are no longer children, we are already dead.

Damien Hirst

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Damien Hirst
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: June 7
Artist
Conceptual Artist
Film Director
Illustrator
Installation Artist
Painter
Printmaker
Restaurateur
Sculptor
Visual Artist
Bristol
Gloucestershire
Damien Steven Hirst
Longer
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Dead
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I don't think I'd want my pet in formaldehyde, but I guess in America they would.
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I liked The Beatles a lot when I was growing up.
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I sometimes feel that I have nothing to say and I want to communicate this.
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