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The more sensitive you are, the more certain you are to be brutalized, develop scabs, never evolve. Never allow yourself to feel anything, because you always feel to much.

Marlon Brando

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Marlon Brando
Age: 80 †
Born: 1924
Born: April 3
Died: 2004
Died: July 1
Actor
Film Actor
Film Director
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Omaha
Nebraska
Marlon Brando Jr.
Never
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Love
Allow
Certain
Anything
Feel
Brutalized
Feels
Scabs
Much
Evolve
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Sensitive

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