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To the artist the communication he offers is a by - product . I am not speaking now of those who ... He forms his decision from the ęsthetic value of the communica- tion that is offered to him . If it yields escape from the reality of ...
To the artist the communication he offers is a by - product . I am not speaking now of those who ... He forms his decision from the ęsthetic value of the communica- tion that is offered to him . If it yields escape from the reality of ...
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But it is evident that while its vogue lasted it seemed much more sig- nificant and so offered a better subject of ... have since then given most of their attention to the writers who seemed to offer something new in technique [ 216 ] ...
But it is evident that while its vogue lasted it seemed much more sig- nificant and so offered a better subject of ... have since then given most of their attention to the writers who seemed to offer something new in technique [ 216 ] ...
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It seems to me then to offer me the final and absolute freedom . Notwith- standing , I am willing enough to go on living so long as the doctors can keep me in tolerable health ; I enjoy the spectacle of the world and it interests me to ...
It seems to me then to offer me the final and absolute freedom . Notwith- standing , I am willing enough to go on living so long as the doctors can keep me in tolerable health ; I enjoy the spectacle of the world and it interests me to ...
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| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | William Somerset Maugham |
| Publisher | W. Heinemann, 1938 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 11 Mar 2008 |
| ISBN | 0434456101, 9780434456109 |
| Length | 317 pages |
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