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It is the thing that is most remote from the world in which we ourselves live that attracts us most. We are under the spell of what is distant from us. It is not our nature to desire passionately what is near at hand.

Alec Waugh

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Alec Waugh
Age: 83 †
Born: 1898
Born: July 8
Died: 1981
Died: September 3
Novelist
Writer
Hampstead Village
Alexander Raban Waugh
Maj. Alexander Raban Waugh
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Passionately
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Spell
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