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The new experience that has replaced dignified suffering is artificially prolonged, opaque, depersonalized maintenance.

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Ivan Illich
Age: 76 †
Born: 1926
Born: September 4
Died: 2002
Died: December 2
Anthropologist
Catholic Priest
Historian
Literary Critic
Pedagogue
Philosopher
Writer
Vienna
Austria
Ivan D. Illich
Ivan Dominic Illich
Opaque
Prolonged
Dignified
Maintenance
Replaced
Suffering
Experience
Artificially

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