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Unless saved by exceptional talent, he necessarily pays the price of clarity.

Pierre Bourdieu

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Pierre Bourdieu
Age: 71 †
Born: 1930
Born: August 1
Died: 2002
Died: January 23
Anthropologist
Philosopher
Photographer
Sociologist
Writer
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