write poetry commit suicide, apparently contradictory, really same, at — John Fowles, Magus

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To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape. And my feelings, at the end of that wretched term, were those of a man who knows he's in a cage, exposed to the jeers of all his old ambitions until he dies.

John Fowles, The Magus

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