Romanian writer, surrealist, dissident.
Born February 6th, 1908 in Blejoi. [ref]
Died September 14th, 1993 at 85 years old in Bucharest. [ref]
Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is just a passing shadow of a cloud. Yann Martel