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Page 28
... pattern into my sentences , but did not see that the pattern was evident . I took care how I placed my words , but did not reflect that an order that was natural at the beginning of the eighteenth century was most unnatural at the ...
... pattern into my sentences , but did not see that the pattern was evident . I took care how I placed my words , but did not reflect that an order that was natural at the beginning of the eighteenth century was most unnatural at the ...
Page 50
... pattern is predetermined . It is only the artist , and maybe the criminal , who can make his own . Perhaps it was a natural sense of tidiness that engaged me , when still so young , to design a pattern for my life ; perhaps it was due ...
... pattern is predetermined . It is only the artist , and maybe the criminal , who can make his own . Perhaps it was a natural sense of tidiness that engaged me , when still so young , to design a pattern for my life ; perhaps it was due ...
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... pattern I thought best , or even the pattern I should have liked to make , but merely that which seemed feasible . There are better patterns than mine . I do not believe that I am influenced only by an illusion natural to the man of ...
... pattern I thought best , or even the pattern I should have liked to make , but merely that which seemed feasible . There are better patterns than mine . I do not believe that I am influenced only by an illusion natural to the man of ...
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