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Sadness is very close to hate.

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Michael Ondaatje
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 12
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How does this happen? To fall in love and be disassembled.
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Come. We must go deeper with no justice and no jokes.
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I want to die on your chest but not yet she wrote sometime in the 13th century of our love
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What is interesting and important happens mostly in secret, in places where there is no power.
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A blind lover, don't know what I love till I write it out
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