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Young people need plenty of difficulties to achieve something.... If you receive a little money for this, a little money for that, everything becomes mediocre, and collapses ignominiously.

Salvador Dali

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Salvador Dali
Age: 84 †
Born: 1904
Born: May 11
Died: 1989
Died: January 23
Actor
Artist
Film Actor
Film Director
Graphic Artist
Illustrator
Jewelry Designer
Painter
Photographer
Scenographer
Screenwriter
Sculptor
Cornish
New Hampshire
Salvador Dalí Domènech
Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dalí
Salvator Dalí
Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dalí Domènech
Salvador Felip Jacint Dalí Domènech
Salvador Dalm y Domenech
Salvador Dalí y Domènech
Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dalí y Domènech
Salvador Dalí i Domènech
Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí y Domènech
Felip Jacint Domènech
Salvador Dali
Young
Difficulties
Littles
Collapse
Little
Receive
Everything
Plenty
Need
Difficulty
Achieve
Ignominiously
Needs
Becomes
Collapses
Something
Money
Mediocre
People

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