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Page 78
The hysteria of the world repels me and I never feel more aloof than when I am in
the midst of a throng surrendered to a violent feeling of mirth or sorrow. Though I
have been in love a good many times I have never experienced the bliss of ...
The hysteria of the world repels me and I never feel more aloof than when I am in
the midst of a throng surrendered to a violent feeling of mirth or sorrow. Though I
have been in love a good many times I have never experienced the bliss of ...
Page 139
In France a man who has ruined himself for women is generally regarded with
sympathy and admiration; there is a feeling that it was worth while, and the man
who has done it feels even a certain pride in the fact; in England he will be
thought ...
In France a man who has ruined himself for women is generally regarded with
sympathy and admiration; there is a feeling that it was worth while, and the man
who has done it feels even a certain pride in the fact; in England he will be
thought ...
Page 245
lives and this confused body of ideas and feelings is enough. ... wanted to
discover whether I was a free agent or whether my feeling that I could mould
myself according to my will was an illusion; I wanted to know whether life had any
meaning ...
lives and this confused body of ideas and feelings is enough. ... wanted to
discover whether I was a free agent or whether my feeling that I could mould
myself according to my will was an illusion; I wanted to know whether life had any
meaning ...
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| Title | The Summing Up, Part 354, Volume 1 Armed Services ed Armed Services editions Volume 10 of Collected edition of the works of W. Somerset Maugham Volume 5339 of Collection of British authors International Collector's Library Volume 60 of Mentor books Volume 5339 of Tauchnitz edition of British and American authors Works, William Somerset Maugham |
| Author | William Somerset Maugham |
| Edition | 4 |
| Publisher | Literary Guild of America, 1938 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 26 Sep 2007 |
| Length | 310 pages |
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