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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
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Essayist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Suffragette
Writer
London
England
Cicely Isabel Fairfield
Dame Cicely Isabel Fairfield
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Universe
Yawns
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... A La Recherche du Temps Perdu is like a beautiful hand with long fingers reaching out to pluck a perfect fruit, without error,for the accurate eye knows well it is growing just there on the branch, while Ulysses is the fumbling of a horned hand in darkness after a doubted jewel.
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music is a missionary effort to colonize earth for imperialistic heaven.
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I always have beauty around me, for I have but to go to my piano, and trace one of the million designs that have been made by my masters.
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