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"All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved."

Elizabeth Bowen, Irish Novelist

Fame, Greatness, Want, Youth

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"All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved."

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