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All civilizations at some time have fallen into this total terror, when the mystery of life was a kind of panic only to be assuaged by the spilling of blood.

Laurie Lee

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Laurie Lee
Age: 82 †
Born: 1914
Born: June 26
Died: 1997
Died: May 13
Autobiographer
Journalist
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
Stroud
Gloucestershire
Civilization
Mystery
Assuaged
Blood
Spilling
Kind
Civilizations
Time
Panic
Life
Fallen
Total
Terror

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