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Being and having in our society teaches us how to take possession of things, when it should rather initiate us in the art of letting go. For there is neither freedom nor real life without an apprenticeship in letting go.
Gabriel Marcel
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Gabriel Marcel
Age: 73 †
Born: 1899
Born: December 7
Died: 1973
Died: October 8
Literary Critic
Musician
Philosopher
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Paris 8
Gabriel Honoré Marcel
Gabriel Honore Marcel
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