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Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
William Faulkner
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William Faulkner
Age: 64 †
Born: 1897
Born: September 25
Died: 1962
Died: July 6
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War is an episode, a crisis, a fever the purpose of which is to rid the body of fever. So the purpose of a war is to end the war.
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It is my ambition to be, as a private individual, abolished and voided from history, leaving it markless.
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