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...practicing physician for most of his life despite his fame as a man of letters, Torga was a liberal socialist, atheist and nonconformist. He spent six months in the dungeons of Portuguese dictator Antonio Salazar at the request of Francisco Franco, who was excoriated in Torga's A Criacao do Mundo (1939), which contained a description of post-civil war Spain. In 1941 Torga began his magnum opus Diario, 16 volumes of reflections on his life and times. ``I fought against age, I fought against men, I fought against God, I fought against myself,'' he wrote. ``I have one consolation...
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