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Futabatei Shimei
Japanese author, translator and literary critic.
Born February 28th, 1864. [ref]
Died May 10th, 1909 at 45 years old in Bay of Bengal (pneumonia, tuberculosis).
Occupations
Esperantist, journalist, novelist, translator, writer
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Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years. Ausonius