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The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.

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George Sand
Age: 71 †
Born: 1804
Born: June 1
Died: 1876
Died: May 8
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living for oneself is a bad thing. The keenest intellectual pleasure comes from being able to return to the self after being absent from it for a spell. But living all the time inside the self, that most tyrannical, demanding and capricious of companions - no, one shouldn't do it.
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