The Summing Up, Part 354, Volume 1The reminiscences of the author's lifetime; insight on life and art; education, discipline and training of a writer. |
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Page 83
What little guidance I had I owe to a young man who came to live with the same
family in Heidelberg as I was living with. I will call him Brown. He was then twenty
-six. After leaving Cambridge he was called to the bar, but he had a little money, ...
What little guidance I had I owe to a young man who came to live with the same
family in Heidelberg as I was living with. I will call him Brown. He was then twenty
-six. After leaving Cambridge he was called to the bar, but he had a little money, ...
Page 232
For me the question has had a special import for I have never wished to be
nothing but a writer; I have wished to live life completely. I have been uneasily
conscious that it was a duty I owed myself to take some part, however small, in
the ...
For me the question has had a special import for I have never wished to be
nothing but a writer; I have wished to live life completely. I have been uneasily
conscious that it was a duty I owed myself to take some part, however small, in
the ...
Page 288
We live now on the eve of great revolutions. I cannot doubt that the proletariat,
increasingly conscious of its rights, will eventually seize power in one country
after the other, and I never cease to marvel that the governing classes of today,
rather ...
We live now on the eve of great revolutions. I cannot doubt that the proletariat,
increasingly conscious of its rights, will eventually seize power in one country
after the other, and I never cease to marvel that the governing classes of today,
rather ...
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