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Culture has never the translucidity of custom it abhors all simplification. In its essence it is opposed to custom, for custom is always the deterioration of culture.

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Frantz Fanon
Age: 36 †
Born: 1925
Born: July 20
Died: 1961
Died: December 6
Essayist
Philosopher
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Fort of France
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