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There are so many beautiful things in the world which I will have to leave when I die, but I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready.

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Maurice Sendak
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: June 10
Died: 2012
Died: May 8
Artist
Cartoonist
Graphic Designer
Illustrator
Painter
Screenwriter
Writer
Brooklyn
New York
Maurice Bernard Sendak
Many
Things
World
Leave
Ready
Dies
Beautiful

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