“Most of the pathetic scenes in almost everybody's life are scenes unnoted by anyone and totally disregarded by the person in question.”

— John Cowper Powys , book A Glastonbury Romance

A Glastonbury Romance (1932; 1955) p. 849

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British writer, lecturer and philosopher 1872–1963

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