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Approach your problems from the right end and begin with the answers. Then, one day, perhaps you will find the final answer.

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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.
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Robert van Gulik

Robert van Gulik

Born: August 9, 1910
Died: September 24, 1967 (aged 57)
Bio: Robert Hans van Gulik was an orientalist, diplomat, musician, and writer, best known for the Judge Dee historical mysteries, the protagonist of which he borrowed from the 18th-century Chinese detective novel Dee Goong An.
Known for:
  1. The Chinese Maze Murders (1951)
  2. The Chinese Bell Murders (1958)
  3. Judge Dee at Work (1967)
  4. The Haunted Monastery (1961)
  5. The Lacquer Screen (1962)

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