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“I have lived to see that being seventeen is no protection against becoming seventy, but to know this needs the experience of a lifetime, for no imagination copes with it.”

Quote by Lord Dunsany

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British writer known for his fantasy literature, renowned for his classic works such as 'The Book of Wonder' and 'The King of Elfland's Daughter'. His works are celebrated for their unique imagination and poetic style. more

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“Yet in the blood of man there is a tide, an old sea-current, rather, that is somehow akin to the twilight, which brings him rumours of beauty from however far away, as drift-wood is found at sea from islands not yet discovered; and this spring-tide or current that visits the blood of man comes from the fabulous quarter of his lineage, from the legendary, of old; it takes him out to the woodlands, out to the hills; he listens to ancient song.”

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Source: The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories

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