# Quote — William Hope Hodgson, The Night Land

> And, as doth be human, I brake my rule straightway in the beginning.

- Author: [William Hope Hodgson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-hope-hodgson.md)
- Book: [The Night Land](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-hope-hodgson/the-night-land.md)
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## More from this book

> We truly to think that the world doth even now be old; and this to have seemed a true thing unto every age that ever did live.

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> And mayhap there to be no mystery in the thing; but a score of natural explainings, if that I did know, or had patience to think long enough upon such.

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> And truly, I to hope that I have made this thing somewise clear unto you; for, indeed, it doth be something hard to set out; for every Age hath the subtleties peculiar to that Age; and these to be hard to the understanding of other Ages, but yet to seem plain and utter natural, even without thought, unto the Peoples of the Age.

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