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Page 48
... soul . From this he concluded , not as you would have thought sensible , that man should cultivate the three forms of activity which he ascribed to him , but that he should pursue only that which is especial to him . Philosophers and ...
... soul . From this he concluded , not as you would have thought sensible , that man should cultivate the three forms of activity which he ascribed to him , but that he should pursue only that which is especial to him . Philosophers and ...
Page 185
... soul . It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down hill . It is not for nothing that artists have called their works the children of their brains and likened the pains of production to the pains of childbirth ...
... soul . It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down hill . It is not for nothing that artists have called their works the children of their brains and likened the pains of production to the pains of childbirth ...
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... soul there lingered still the old dread of hell - fire , and for long my exultation was tempered by the shadow of that ancestral anxiety . I no longer believed in God ; I still , in my bones , believed in the Devil . lxvi It was this ...
... soul there lingered still the old dread of hell - fire , and for long my exultation was tempered by the shadow of that ancestral anxiety . I no longer believed in God ; I still , in my bones , believed in the Devil . lxvi It was this ...
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