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I turn to history not for lessons but to confront my experience with the experience of others and to win for myself a sense of responsibility for the state of the human conscience.

Zbigniew Herbert

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Zbigniew Herbert
Age: 73 †
Born: 1924
Born: October 29
Died: 1998
Died: July 28
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