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I don't know what other singers feel when they articulate lyrics, but being an 18-karat manic-depressive and having lived a life of violent emotional contradictions, I have an overacute capacity for sadness as well as elation.

Frank Sinatra

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Frank Sinatra
Age: 82 †
Born: 1915
Born: December 12
Died: 1998
Died: May 14
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