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The individual feels the vanity of human desires and aims, and the nobility and marvelous order which are revealed in nature and in the world of thought. He feels the individual destiny as an imprisonment and seeks to experience the totality of existence as a unity full of significance.

Albert Einstein

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Albert Einstein
Age: 76 †
Born: 1879
Born: March 14
Died: 1955
Died: April 18
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