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Air is the very substance of our freedom, the substance of superhuman joy.... aerial joy is freedom.

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Gaston Bachelard
Age: 78 †
Born: 1884
Born: June 27
Died: 1962
Died: October 16
G 巴什拉
G. Bachelard
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Air
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