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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... instinct and when I know a thing never feel in myself the desire to impart it to others . I do not much care if people agree with me . Of course I think I am right , otherwise I should not think as I do , and they are wrong , but it ...
... instinct and when I know a thing never feel in myself the desire to impart it to others . I do not much care if people agree with me . Of course I think I am right , otherwise I should not think as I do , and they are wrong , but it ...
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... instincts , feelings and deep - rooted prejudices , the prejudices that are so intimate a part of one that they can hardly be distinguished from instincts ; and out of them make a system that would be valid for me and enable me to ...
... instincts , feelings and deep - rooted prejudices , the prejudices that are so intimate a part of one that they can hardly be distinguished from instincts ; and out of them make a system that would be valid for me and enable me to ...
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... instinct of expression , an exuberance of vitality , a mystical sense of the absolute and I know not what . For my part I should have said it was not an instinct at all , but a state of the body - mind , founded in part on certain ...
... instinct of expression , an exuberance of vitality , a mystical sense of the absolute and I know not what . For my part I should have said it was not an instinct at all , but a state of the body - mind , founded in part on certain ...
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