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A great part of our lives is occupied in reverie , and the more imaginative we are , the more varied and vivid this will be . How many of us could face having our reveries automatically registered and set before us ?
A great part of our lives is occupied in reverie , and the more imaginative we are , the more varied and vivid this will be . How many of us could face having our reveries automatically registered and set before us ?
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Their disorderly existence was a lure to the imagination in the Age of Reason and the heroic parts they played , the verse they spoke , invested them with a halo . In Goethe's Wilhelm Meister , that wonderful and neglected ...
Their disorderly existence was a lure to the imagination in the Age of Reason and the heroic parts they played , the verse they spoke , invested them with a halo . In Goethe's Wilhelm Meister , that wonderful and neglected ...
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My lack of imagination ( for imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in the mature than in the young ) obliged me to set down quite straightforwardly what I had seen with my own eyes and heard with ...
My lack of imagination ( for imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in the mature than in the young ) obliged me to set down quite straightforwardly what I had seen with my own eyes and heard with ...
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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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