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I loved her. I still love her, though I curse her in my sleep, so nearly one are love and hate, the two most powerful and devasting emotions that control man, nations, life.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

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Edgar Rice Burroughs
Age: 75 †
Born: 1875
Born: February 23
Died: 1950
Died: March 19
Novelist
Prosaist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Chicago
Illinois
Love
Nations
Life
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Though
Nearly
Hate
Emotions
Two
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Loved
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Control
Men
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