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René Daumal
(16 Mar 1908 - 21 May 1944)
French poet and critic who published avant-garde poetry beginning in his late teens. He died at an early age of tuberculosis, having risked his health by experimenting with pyschoactive chemicals and drugs.
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Science Quotes by René Daumal (1)
Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.
— René Daumal
'The Lie of the Truth'. (1938) translated by Phil Powrie (1989). In Carol A. Dingle, Memorable Quotations (2000), 61.
