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were wretched puppets at the mercy of a ruthless fate ; and that , bound by the inexorable laws of nature , we were doomed to take part in the ceaseless struggle for existence with nothing to look forward to but inevitable defeat .
were wretched puppets at the mercy of a ruthless fate ; and that , bound by the inexorable laws of nature , we were doomed to take part in the ceaseless struggle for existence with nothing to look forward to but inevitable defeat .
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... painters , actors ; the love affairs I had had and the easy companionship of my friends ; the comfortableness and security of life . It was stilling me and I hankered after a different mode of existence and new experiences .
... painters , actors ; the love affairs I had had and the easy companionship of my friends ; the comfortableness and security of life . It was stilling me and I hankered after a different mode of existence and new experiences .
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... evils of one's own life if one could think that they were but the necessary outcome of one's errors in a previous existence , and the effort to do better would be less difficult too when there was the hope than in another existence ...
... evils of one's own life if one could think that they were but the necessary outcome of one's errors in a previous existence , and the effort to do better would be less difficult too when there was the hope than in another existence ...
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| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | William Somerset Maugham |
| Publisher | Literary Guild of America, 1938 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 26 Sep 2007 |
| Length | 310 pages |
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