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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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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.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Born:
December 11, 1911
Died:
August 30, 2006
(aged 94)
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