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date: 15 May 2025

H. Rider Haggard 1856–1925
English writer 

  1. Out of the dark we came, into the dark we go…Life is nothing. Life is all. It is the hand with which we hold off death. It is the glow-worm that shines in the night-time and is black in the morning; it is the white breath of the oxen in winter; it is the little shadow that runs across the grass and loses itself at sunset.
    King Solomon's Mines (1886) ch. 5; see Crowfoot
  2. She who must be obeyed.
    She (1887) ch. 6 and passim