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"Un homme qui est mort à trente-cinq ans apparaîtra aux générations lointaines comme un jeune homme, presque un garçon, tandis que ses contemporains qui ont atteint un âge avancé me sembleront toujours être nés vieux."

Walter Benjamin

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People in the future will see a person who died young as still being young. Meanwhile, those who lived a long life will always seem as if they were always old.

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