But the truth was she could not bear to be around thier undead, healthy children. More than envy she felt that each laughing redcheeked child of thiers was an accusation of failure, a mockery of her own.
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- Author's profession: Novelist
- Nationality: american
- Born: February 18, 1931
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For although we know that the years pass, that youth gives way to old age, that fortunes and thrones crumble (even the most solid among them) and that fame is transitory, the manner in which—by means of a sort of snapshot—we take cognisance of this moving universe whirled along by Time, has the contrary effect of immobilising it.
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