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To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves. - Simone Weil

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Philosopher

Born:3rd February, 1909
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Starsign: Aquarius

Author Keywords: Philosopher


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Isaiah Berlin, Richard Whately, Baltasar Gracian, Annie Besant, Arthur Schopenhauer

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