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Max Ehrmann

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Max Ehrmann

Max Ehrmann (born 26 September 1872 in Terre Haute, Indiana; died 9 September 1945 in the same city) became famous thanks to his poem Desiderata, written in 1927. The son of German immigrants from Bavaria, Ehrmann studied English at DePauw University (Indiana, USA), then law and philosophy at...

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Maurice Maeterlinck

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Maurice Maeterlinck

Maurice Maeterlinck (by his real name Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck), born on 29 August 1862 in Ghent (Belgium) and died on 6 May 1949 in...
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