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The Heat of the Sentence
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Six words, and none of them his. Mère décédée.
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The documentary spine of Dalí's childhood is unusually firm, because his father made documents for a living.Salvador Dalí i Cusí was the notary of
Their Hearse: Victor Hugo, 1802–1885
It is in one of these notebooks that the most famous sentence of his adolescence is supposed to appear: I want to be Chateaubriand
