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Saiichi Maruya

Japanese writer (1925-2012).

Born August 27th, 1925 in Tsuruoka.

Died October 13th, 2012 at 87 years old in Tokyo.

Occupations
essayist, literary critic, novelist, translator, university teacher, 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