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Page 246
... mind a human being . Such descriptions may often be read with a pleasure which you can- not get from a sober enumeration of traits , but I doubt whether they take you much further . I have a notion that their vivacity often conceals the ...
... mind a human being . Such descriptions may often be read with a pleasure which you can- not get from a sober enumeration of traits , but I doubt whether they take you much further . I have a notion that their vivacity often conceals the ...
Page 335
... mind , and if you have it you show it because you can't help it . It's like originality : no one can be original by trying . The original artist is only being himself ; he puts things in what seems to him a perfectly normal and obvious ...
... mind , and if you have it you show it because you can't help it . It's like originality : no one can be original by trying . The original artist is only being himself ; he puts things in what seems to him a perfectly normal and obvious ...
Page 354
... mind what people think of me . They can take me or leave me . I am mildly pleased when they appear to like me and undisturbed if I know they don't . I have long known that there is something in me that antag- onizes certain persons ; I ...
... mind what people think of me . They can take me or leave me . I am mildly pleased when they appear to like me and undisturbed if I know they don't . I have long known that there is something in me that antag- onizes certain persons ; I ...
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