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Let Pascal say that man is a thinking reed. He is wrong man is a thinking erratum. Each period in life is a new edition that corrects the preceding one and that in turn will be corrected by the next, until publication of the definitive edition, which the publisher donates to the worms.

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Machado de Assis
Age: 69 †
Born: 1839
Born: June 21
Died: 1908
Died: September 29
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