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Winifred Holtby
 
Date of birth: 23 June 1898
Date of death: 29 September 1935
Country Of Origin: England
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" I was sixteen when the war started. The first thing it made me do was fall in love. Brevity of life makes passion more insistent. The youngest and fittest in uniform. The erotic attraction of death. "

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" The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding. "

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" The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing. "

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" These are they whose youth was violently severed by war and death; a word on the telephone, a scribbled line on paper, and their future ceased. They have built up their lives again, but their safety is not absolute, their fortress not impregnable. "

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" What a strange distance there is between ill people and well ones. "

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