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If we live by subhuman means we might as well never have had the good fortune to be born human.

Ihara Saikaku

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Ihara Saikaku
Age: 51 †
Born: 1642
Born: January 1
Died: 1693
Died: September 9
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Human
Humans
Subhuman
Well
Fortune
Mean
Born
Good
Means
Never
Live
Wells
Might

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