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Together, they would watch everything that was so carefully planned collapse, and they would smile at the beauty of destruction.
Markus Zusak
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Markus Zusak
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: January 1
Novelist
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Sydney
NSW
Together
Collapse
Everything
Carefully
Would
Destruction
Life
Smile
Watches
Watch
Beauty
Death
Planned
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