"Some people, steadily developing, will exhaust the possibilities of their circles of time and will finally swing out of them into new existences. Others -- the criminals, madmen, suicides -- live their lives in ever darkening circles of their time. Fatality begins to haunt them. more and more of their lives are passed in the shadow of death."
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I Have Been Here Before
I Have Been Here Before is a play by English writer J. B. Priestley, written in 1937 and was first produced at the Royalty Theatre in London's West End, on Wednesday, 22 September 1937 by Lewis Casson. This is one of Priestley's "Time Plays" and was based in part on P.D. Ouspensky's theories of time and recurrence.
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