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It is curious how, from time immemorial, man seems to have associated the idea of evil with beauty, shrunk from it with a sort of ghostly fear, while, at the same time drawn to it by force of its hypnotic attraction.

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Richard Le Gallienne
Age: 81 †
Born: 1866
Born: January 20
Died: 1947
Died: September 15
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Journalist
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City of Liverpool
Richard Le Gallienne
Richard Thomas Le Gallienne
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