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To live is to play at the meaning of life...The upshot of this... is that it teaches us once and for all that childlike foolishness is the calling of mature men.

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Ernest Becker

Ernest Becker

Born: September 27, 1924
Died: March 6, 1974 (aged 49)
Bio: Ernest Becker was a Jewish-American cultural anthropologist and writer. He is noted for his 1974 Pulitzer Prize-winning book, The Denial of Death.
Known for:
  1. The Denial of Death
  2. Escape from Evil
  3. The birth and death of meaning (1971)
  4. The Ernest Becker Reader
  5. The Structure of Evil (1968)
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