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The whole world might know you and acclaim you, but someone in the past, forever unreachable, forever unknowing, spoils it all.

Isaac Asimov

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Isaac Asimov
Age: 72 †
Born: 1920
Born: January 2
Died: 1992
Died: April 6
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