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Page 12
... excited my fancy , that I had no time to reflect . The experience of the moment was so vivid that I could not attune my mind to introspection . I have been held back also by the irksomeness of setting down my thoughts in my own person ...
... excited my fancy , that I had no time to reflect . The experience of the moment was so vivid that I could not attune my mind to introspection . I have been held back also by the irksomeness of setting down my thoughts in my own person ...
Page 60
... excited the novelist in me . Even now that forty years have passed I can remember certain people so exactly that I could draw a picture of them . Phrases that I heard then still linger on my ears . I saw how men died . I saw how they ...
... excited the novelist in me . Even now that forty years have passed I can remember certain people so exactly that I could draw a picture of them . Phrases that I heard then still linger on my ears . I saw how men died . I saw how they ...
Page 107
... excited . I think I lack the quality of being surprised , and just as in my journeys I have accepted the most curious sights and the most novel circum- stances as perfectly ordinary , so that I have had to force myself to notice that ...
... excited . I think I lack the quality of being surprised , and just as in my journeys I have accepted the most curious sights and the most novel circum- stances as perfectly ordinary , so that I have had to force myself to notice that ...
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