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Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you.
Roald Dahl
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Roald Dahl
Age: 74 †
Born: 1916
Born: September 13
Died: 1990
Died: November 23
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Some children are spoiled and it is not their fault, it is their parents.
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I am only 8 years old, I told myself. No little boy of 8 has ever murdered anyone. It's not possible.
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Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.
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All you do is to look / At a page in this book / Because that's where we always will be. / No book ever ends / When it's full of your friends / The Giraffe and the Pelly and me.
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