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      "text": "I belong to the generation of 1968, which, throughout the world, hoped to recast society on the model of the imagination. I have tried to learn from disappointment and defeat, but I have not despaired. \"If the fool would persist in his folly,\" wrote William Blake, \"he would become wise.\"",
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