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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Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forget life, to be at peace. Oscar Wilde