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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... live haphazard lives subject to the varying winds of fortune . Many are forced by the situation in which they were born and the necessity of earning a living to keep to a straight and narrow road in which there is no possibility of ...
... live haphazard lives subject to the varying winds of fortune . Many are forced by the situation in which they were born and the necessity of earning a living to keep to a straight and narrow road in which there is no possibility of ...
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... live on in those inexpensive days , and finding the law distasteful he had made up his mind to devote himself to literature . He came to Heidelberg to learn German . I knew him till his death forty years later . For twenty years he ...
... live on in those inexpensive days , and finding the law distasteful he had made up his mind to devote himself to literature . He came to Heidelberg to learn German . I knew him till his death forty years later . For twenty years he ...
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... lives of the proletariat in the great cities all is misery and confusion . It is hard to reconcile oneself to the fact that men should have no work to do , that work should be so dreary , that they should live , they , their wives and ...
... lives of the proletariat in the great cities all is misery and confusion . It is hard to reconcile oneself to the fact that men should have no work to do , that work should be so dreary , that they should live , they , their wives and ...
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