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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... seemed possible the theatre could give me . I had made as much money as I needed to live in the sort of way that pleased me and to provide for such as had claims on me . I had won a great notoriety and perhaps even a passing fame . I ...
... seemed possible the theatre could give me . I had made as much money as I needed to live in the sort of way that pleased me and to provide for such as had claims on me . I had won a great notoriety and perhaps even a passing fame . I ...
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... seemed to enter it and my spirit , alone with the stars , seemed capable of any adventure . My imagination was never more nimble ; it was like a barque under press of sail scudding before the breeze . The monotonous days , whose only ...
... seemed to enter it and my spirit , alone with the stars , seemed capable of any adventure . My imagination was never more nimble ; it was like a barque under press of sail scudding before the breeze . The monotonous days , whose only ...
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... seemed to me that with this , the knowledge of the world I had acquired during the forty years of my life ( for I was forty when I conceived this idea ) and the industrious study of philosophical literature to which I was prepared to ...
... seemed to me that with this , the knowledge of the world I had acquired during the forty years of my life ( for I was forty when I conceived this idea ) and the industrious study of philosophical literature to which I was prepared to ...
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