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Girls are infinitely more complicated than boys, and women more than men.
Maurice Sendak
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Maurice Sendak
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: June 10
Died: 2012
Died: May 8
Artist
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Brooklyn
New York
Maurice Bernard Sendak
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Because love is so enormous, the only thing you can think of doing is swallowing the person that you love entirely.
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