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If people only knew what lies at the heart of my novels! What a tumult of desires these carefully written pages conceal! I sometimes have a loathing for the furious cravings that give me no peace except when I am working.

Julien Green

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Julien Green
Age: 97 †
Born: 1900
Born: September 6
Died: 1998
Died: August 13
Autobiographer
Biographer
Writer
Paris
France
Julian Hartridge Green
J. F. Green
David Irland
Théophile Delaporte
Giving
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Craving
Heart
Written
Carefully
People
Working
Novels
Lying
Desires
Cravings
Peace
Pages
Tumult
Desire
Except
Loathing
Give
Lies
Conceal
Sometimes
Novel
Furious

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