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Richard Le Gallienne, born on January 20, 1866, in France, and died on September 15, 1947. He was a British author, poet, playwright, and literary critic, known for his unique literary style and influence on British literature.

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“Nature is forever arriving and forever departing, forever approaching, forever vanishing; but in her vanishings there seems to be ever the waving of a hand, in all her partings a promise of meetings farther along the road.”

Hands Seems Forever Promise Meetings Parting Arriving Vanishing Departing

Book:Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays

Source: Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays

“All roads indeed lead to Rome, but theirs also is a more mystical destination, some bourne of which no traveller knows the name, some city, they all seem to hint, even more eternal.”

Knows Seems Names Cities Travel Eternal Destination Rome Mystical Hints Traveller Bourne

Book:Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays

Source: Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays

“Though actually the work of man's hands - or, more properly speaking, the work of his travelling feet, - roads have long since come to seem so much a part of Nature that we have grown to think of them as a feature of the landscape no less natural than rocks and trees.”

Thinking Men Long Hands Seems Natural Tree Journey Feet Rocks Landscape Features

Book:Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays

Source: Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays

“In their work, then, as in their play, men and women are more and more coming to share with each other as comrades, and really the fun of life seems in no wise diminished as a consequence.”

Men Play Seems Fun Wise Share Men And Women Consequence Comrade

Book:Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays

Source: Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays

“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.”

Men Ideas Seems Evil Force Attraction Curious Hypnotic

Book:Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays

Source: Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays

About the Author

Born: January 20, 1866
Died: September 15, 1947
Known for: Author
Quotes: 40

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Vanishing Roads, and Other EssaysRelated source material

The Quest of the Golden GirlRelated source material

The lonely dancer: and other poemsRelated source material

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Richard Le Gallienne: a centenary memoir-anthologyRelated source material

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The Religion of a Literary Man: (Religio Scriptoris)Related source material

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