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Jean Starobinski was a Swiss literary critic.

✵ 17. November 1920 – 4. March 2019
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Jean Starobinski Quotes

“To be an ignorant man, to posses nothing but a fragile word, to find oneself as if relying upon darkness and nothingness: that is the position from which one must be constantly setting out.”

Jean Starobinski

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