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I perceive a necessary gap between seeing and being. I would not be able to have said certain things if I had been under the obligation to unify the word and the deed. As it is I can let my words reach out and net impossible things - things that are impossible for me to do. And this is a way to pay the price for saying or seeing things.

Norman O. Brown

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Norman O. Brown
Age: 89 †
Born: 1913
Born: September 25
Died: 2002
Died: October 2
Classical Scholar
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Municipio de El Oro Estado de Mexico
Norman Oliver Brown
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