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To denounce does not free the self from what it hates, any more than ignoring the past shuts off its influence.

Jacques Barzun

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Jacques Barzun
Age: 104 †
Born: 1907
Born: November 30
Died: 2012
Died: October 25
Critic
Cultural Historian
Historian
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University Teacher
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