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Robert Lowell Quotes: History has to live with what was here, clutching and close to fumbling all we had - it is so dull and gruesome how we die, unlike writing, life never finishes.
         

History has to live with what was here, clutching and close to fumbling all we had - it is so dull and gruesome how we die, unlike writing, life never finishes.


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I was overcome with an attack of pathological enthusiasm.

I was overcome with an attack of pathological enthusiasm.



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