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There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience.

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Rebecca West
Age: 90 †
Born: 1892
Born: December 21
Died: 1983
Died: March 15
Author
Essayist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Suffragette
Writer
London
England
Cicely Isabel Fairfield
Dame Cicely Isabel Fairfield
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Yawns
Experience
Thither
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Gulf
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