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... notion prevailed that anyone who had artistic leanings and wanted to write short stories must write stories like Chekov . Several writers transplanted Russian melancholy , Russian mysti- cism , Russian fecklessness , Russian despair ...
... notion prevailed that anyone who had artistic leanings and wanted to write short stories must write stories like Chekov . Several writers transplanted Russian melancholy , Russian mysti- cism , Russian fecklessness , Russian despair ...
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... notion as though it were the devil's tail by which they hoped to drag the old devil himself back into exist- ence . There has been great rejoicing , if not in the courts of heaven , at all events in the palaces of the episcopacy ...
... notion as though it were the devil's tail by which they hoped to drag the old devil himself back into exist- ence . There has been great rejoicing , if not in the courts of heaven , at all events in the palaces of the episcopacy ...
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... notion that he is preaching one . The bee produces wax for her own purposes and is unaware that man will put it to diverse uses . LXXVII IT APPEARS then impossible to say that either truth or beauty has intrinsic value . What about ...
... notion that he is preaching one . The bee produces wax for her own purposes and is unaware that man will put it to diverse uses . LXXVII IT APPEARS then impossible to say that either truth or beauty has intrinsic value . What about ...
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