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John Cowper Powys

8 October 1872-17 June 1963

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Anger is balm to women, a nepenthe, a release, a relief, a divine comfort to their nerves, and a consummation of all their suppressed feelings.

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Culture is the bed-rock, the final wall, against which one leans one's back in a god-forsaken chaos.

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Naming is a powerful tool by which to enrich and enhance reality — Each planet, each plant, each butterfly, each moth, each beetle, becomes doubly real to you when you know its name. Lucky indeed are those who from their earliest childhood have heard all these things named.