I think it is impossible to... by Patrick White, an Australian Author

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“I think it is impossible to explain faith. It is like trying to explain air, which one cannot do by dividing it into its component parts and labeling them scientifically. It must be breathed to be understood.”

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Name: Patrick White

Nationality: Australian

Date of Birth: May 28, 1912

Date of Death: Sep 30, 1990

Profession: Author

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Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man.

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My father and mother were second cousins, though they did not meet till shortly before their marriage.

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Even if a university should turn out to be another version of a school, I had decided I could lose myself afterwards as an anonymous particle of the London I already loved.

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Probably induced by the asthma, I started reading and writing early on, my literary efforts from the age of about nine running chiefly to poetry and plays.

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In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years as a colonial at an English school.

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