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Page 16
... importance ; and indeed , I am - to myself . To myself I am the most important person in the world ; though I do not forget that , not even tak- ing into consideration so grand a conception as the Absolute , but from the standpoint of ...
... importance ; and indeed , I am - to myself . To myself I am the most important person in the world ; though I do not forget that , not even tak- ing into consideration so grand a conception as the Absolute , but from the standpoint of ...
Page 118
... important is that there has been a change of heart among us , owing to changes in civilisation , and so certain themes that dramatists favoured have now fallen into desuetude . We are less revengeful than we were and now a play devoted ...
... important is that there has been a change of heart among us , owing to changes in civilisation , and so certain themes that dramatists favoured have now fallen into desuetude . We are less revengeful than we were and now a play devoted ...
Page 202
... important , can have but an ephemeral value ; for his merit is that he responds to the needs of , and points the way to , his own generation . A new generation arises with other needs , a new way stretches before it ; he has nothing ...
... important , can have but an ephemeral value ; for his merit is that he responds to the needs of , and points the way to , his own generation . A new generation arises with other needs , a new way stretches before it ; he has nothing ...
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