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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... 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 ...
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... beauty that I valued . All these notions I have long since abandoned . In the first place I discovered that beauty was a full stop . When I considered beautiful things I found that there was nothing for me to do but to gaze and admire ...
... beauty that I valued . All these notions I have long since abandoned . In the first place I discovered that beauty was a full stop . When I considered beautiful things I found that there was nothing for me to do but to gaze and admire ...
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... beauty , but right action . If beauty is one of the great values of life , then it seems hard to believe that the ęsthetic sense which enables men to appreciate it should be the privilege only of a class . It is not possible to maintain ...
... beauty , but right action . If beauty is one of the great values of life , then it seems hard to believe that the ęsthetic sense which enables men to appreciate it should be the privilege only of a class . It is not possible to maintain ...
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accept action actors admire ęsthetic amusing artist asked audience beauty believe better character Chekov comedy common conscious course crasy critic deal delight dialogue discover drama dramatist effect emotion English evil excited existence experience eyes fact feeling fiction forced French gave George Meredith Gerald du Maurier gift give Goethe Henry Arthur Jones Human Bondage human nature humour ideas idiosyncrasy imagination important instinct interest invention Jack Straw knew knowledge Kuno Fischer Lady Frederick literature live Liza of Lambeth look matter Matthew Arnold meaning mind never notion novel novelist one's pattern perfect perhaps philosophers phrase picture play pleasure produced prose reader reason seemed sense sometimes sort soul speak spirit Stendhal story success suppose talent tell theatre things thought tion told truth Walter Pater wanted words write written wrote young youth