I have twenty countries in my memory and trail in my soul the colors of one hundred cities.
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Knowing that there is no future that is possible or desirable, I experience the solace one feels on going back to sleep when the alarm clock has sounded.
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Birth: | 22nd May, 1887 |
Death: | 1918 |
Nationality: | French, Swiss |
Profession: | Blogger, Boxer, Poet |
Cravan was born and educated in Lausanne, Switzerland, then at an English military academy from which he was expelled after spanking a teacher. After his schooling, during World War I, he travelled throughout Europe and America using a variety of passports and documents, some of them forged. He declared no single nationality and claimed instead to be a "citizen of 20 countries".
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