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Palace of Desire (1957)
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The calendar has a magic that makes us imagine a memory can be resurrected and revived, but nothing returns.
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Voices were blended and intermingled in a tumultuous swirl around which eddied laughter, shouts, the squeaking of doors and windows, piano and accordion music, rollicking handclaps, a policeman's bark, braying, grunts, coughs of hashish addicts and screams of drunkards, anonymous calls for help, raps of a stick, and singing by individuals and groups.
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Nothing records the effects of a sad life so graphically as the human body.
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If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.
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Born:
December 11, 1911
Died:
August 30, 2006
(aged 94)
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