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To give up another person's love is a mild suicide like a very bad inoculation as compared to the full disease.

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Wyndham Lewis
Age: 72 †
Born: 1884
Born: November 18
Died: 1957
Died: January 1
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Nova Scotia
Percy Wyndham Lewis
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