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We both wondered whether these contradictions that one can't avoid if one begins to think of time and space may not really be proofs that the whole of life is a dream, and the moon and stars bits of nightmare.
Arthur Machen
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Arthur Machen
Age: 84 †
Born: 1863
Born: March 3
Died: 1947
Died: December 15
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