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Few of humanity's characteristics are more disconcerting than its ability to reduce world-events to its own level, wherever this may happen to be.
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The best prose is written by authors who see their universe with a poet's eyes.
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Vera Brittain
Born:
December 29, 1893
Died:
March 29, 1970
(aged 76)
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Vera Mary Brittain, Lady Catlin was an English writer, feminist, and pacifist. Her best-selling 1933 memoir Testament of Youth recounted her experiences during the First World War and the beginning of her journey towards pacifism.
Known for:
Testament of Youth (1933)
Testament of friendship (1940)
Letters from a lost generation
Honourable Estate (1936)
England's Hour (1941)
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