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“There is usually no dreamer so unworldly as the anthologist. He wanders in a vast garden, lost in wonder, unable to decide often between flowers of equal loveliness. ... The true anthologist has the greatest difficulty in finishing his book. There is always just one more, a new, delicious discovery.”

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Mary Webb

Mary Webb, born on March 25, 1881, was an accomplished novelist from the early 20th century in the United Kingdom. She is renowned for her unique literary style and profound depiction of rural life in England. more

“There is surely no more unselfish person than the anthologist. For while all we others are striving to ensure our own immortality with eagerness, beguilements, buffooneries, loud voices, 'the sound of battle and garments rolled in blood,' the anthologist is quietly ensuring the immortality of somebody else.”

Persons Sound Voice Blood Battle Strive Loud Immortality Garments Unselfish Eagerness Loud Voices

Author:Mary Webb

“For the more a soul conforms to the sanity of others, the more does it become insane.”

Doe Soul Insane Conformity Sanity Conform

Author:Mary Webb

“She had for so many years been trying to be like other people, that she was now like nothing in heaven or earth.”

People Trying Years Earth Heaven Conformity

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“For the world is founded and built up on death, and the reality of death is neither to be questioned nor feared. Death is a dark dream, but it is not a nightmare. It is mankind's lack of pity, mankind's fatal propensity for torture, that is the nightmare.”

World Dream Reality Death Dark Mankind Built Pity Torture Nightmare Propensity Dark Dreams Reality Of Death

Book:Gone To Earth