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Michel Leiris
French surrealist writer and ethnographer.
Born April 20th, 1901 in 16th arrondissement of Paris. [ref]
Died September 30th, 1990 at 89 years old in Saint-Hilaire (myocardial infarction). [ref]
Occupations
anthropologist, collector, diarist, ethnographer, ethnologist, poet, writer
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You’ll drift apart, it’s true, but you’ll be out in the open, part of everything alive again. Philip Pullman