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[In Bali] life is a rhythmic, patterned unreality of pleasant, significant movement, centered in one's own body to which all emotions long ago withdrew.

Margaret Mead

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Margaret Mead
Age: 76 †
Born: 1901
Born: December 16
Died: 1978
Died: November 15
Anthropologist
Cultural Anthropologist
Curator
Film Director
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Body
Rhythmic
Long
Unreality
Life
Centered
Pleasant
Emotions
Significant
Patterned
Emotion
Withdrew
Movement
Bali

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