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In the common words we use every day, souls of past races, the thoughts and feelings of individual men stand around us, not dead, but frozen into their attitudes like the courtiers in the garden of the Sleeping Beauty.
Owen Barfield
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Owen Barfield
Age: 99 †
Born: 1898
Born: November 9
Died: 1997
Died: December 14
Philosopher
Poet
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London
England
Arthur Owen Barfield
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