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Problems of human behavior still continue to baffle us, but at least in the Library we have them properly filed.
Anita Brookner
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Anita Brookner
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: July 16
Died: 2016
Died: March 10
Art Historian
Novelist
University Teacher
Writer
London
England
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Filed
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Library
Humans
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Behavior
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Least
Stills
Baffle
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