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Page 196
... beauty and romance and glad to put a great ocean between me and the trouble that harassed me . I found beauty and romance , but I found also something I had never expected . I found a new self . Ever since I left St Thomas's Hospital I ...
... beauty and romance and glad to put a great ocean between me and the trouble that harassed me . I found beauty and romance , but I found also something I had never expected . I found a new self . Ever since I left St Thomas's Hospital I ...
Page 296
... Beauty stands in a better case . For many years I thought that it was beauty alone that gave signifi- cance to life and that the only purpose that could be assigned to the teeming generations that succeed one another on the face of the ...
... Beauty stands in a better case . For many years I thought that it was beauty alone that gave signifi- cance to life and that the only purpose that could be assigned to the teeming generations that succeed one another on the face of the ...
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... beauty is relative to the needs of a particular generation , and that to examine the things we consider beautiful for qualities of absolute beauty is futile . If beauty is one of the values that give life significance it is something ...
... beauty is relative to the needs of a particular generation , and that to examine the things we consider beautiful for qualities of absolute beauty is futile . If beauty is one of the values that give life significance it is something ...
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