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Like a bird, when his cage is opened, stays on his perch, dazzled by freedom, the postponed traveler does not see that his cage, with its bars of anxiety, it is open.

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Andre Maurois
Age: 82 †
Born: 1885
Born: July 26
Died: 1967
Died: October 7
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Essayist
Historian
Literary Critic
Novelist
Philosopher
Science Fiction Writer
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Émile Salomon Wilhelm
Andre Maurois
Émile Salomon Wilhelm Herzog
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Dazzled
Open
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Freedom
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Like
Traveler
Opened
Bars
Perch
Anxiety
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