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It would be nice to avoid the world, to leave it and all its threats and unhappiness. Not to die or anything like that, but to find a place of solitude and solace.

Robert Cormier

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Robert Cormier
Age: 75 †
Born: 1925
Born: January 17
Died: 2000
Died: November 2
Author
Journalist
Writer
Bay State
Robert Edmund Cormier
Would
Avoid
Like
Threat
World
Leave
Nice
Dies
Solace
Place
Threats
Anything
Unhappiness
Find
Solitude

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