To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape.

John Fowles
To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory,...
To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory,...
To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory,...
To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory,...
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The idea is that if you want to live, you must write poetry. That is the only way to make the world a better place for all of us. If you want to be remembered, you must commit suicide. It was not until I began to realize that both these attempts at escape were one and the same that my life began to change for the better. To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape.

Source: The Magus

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