George Moore (novelist) (1852–1933) Irish novelist, short-story writer, poet, art critic, memoirist and dramatist
Apologia Pro Scriptis Meis. <br class="br"> Memoirs of My Dead Life http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/8mmdl10.txt (1906)
“You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.”
Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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