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“We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.”
“We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.”
— JAMES BARRIE
Novelist and playwright · 1860 – 1937
Sir James Matthew Barrie was a Scottish novelist and playwright best remembered as the creator of Peter Pan, the boy who would not grow up. His play Peter Pan premiered in 1904 and became a timeless classic.
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