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Henrik Pontoppidan
Writer, nobel laureate.
Born July 24th, 1857 in Fredericia. [ref]
Died August 21st, 1943 at 86 years old in Ordrup. [ref]
Occupations
autobiographer, novelist, poet, writer
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It is the fate — the genetic and neural fate — of every human being to be a unique individual, to find his own path, to live his own life, to die his own death. Oliver Sacks