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Time is the explicable raw material of everything.

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Arnold Bennett
Age: 63 †
Born: 1867
Born: May 27
Died: 1931
Died: March 27
Autobiographer
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Film Writer
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
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Mother Town
Enoch Arnold Bennett
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The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else.
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The people who live in the past must yield to the people who live in the future. Otherwise the world would begin to turn the other way round.
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Far from the madding crowd is a mistake on a honeymoon.... Solitude! Wherever you are, if you're on a honeymoon, you'll get quite as much solitude as is good for you every twenty-four hours. Constant change and distraction -- that's what wants arranging for. Solitude will arrange itself.
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Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.
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