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With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
George Orwell
Born: June 25, 1903
Died: January 21, 1950 (aged 46)
Bio: Eric Arthur Blair, who used the pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic.
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