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It is only the artist , and maybe the criminal , who can make his own . Perhaps it was a natural sense of tidiness that engaged me , when still so young , to design a pattern for my life ; perhaps it was due to something ...
It is only the artist , and maybe the criminal , who can make his own . Perhaps it was a natural sense of tidiness that engaged me , when still so young , to design a pattern for my life ; perhaps it was due to something ...
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Though there is in them a great deal that I did not understand , and perhaps I did not even understand as much as I thought , I have read them with passionate interest . The only one who has consistently bored me is Hegel .
Though there is in them a great deal that I did not understand , and perhaps I did not even understand as much as I thought , I have read them with passionate interest . The only one who has consistently bored me is Hegel .
Page 249
But if we are not certainly bound by the law of cause and effect , then perhaps it is not an illusion that our wills are free . The bishops and the deans have snatched at this new notion as though it were the devil's tail by which they ...
But if we are not certainly bound by the law of cause and effect , then perhaps it is not an illusion that our wills are free . The bishops and the deans have snatched at this new notion as though it were the devil's tail by which they ...
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| Title | The Summing Up Volume 17 of Contemporary English series Volume 60 of Mentor books |
| Author | William Somerset Maugham |
| Edition | 4 |
| Publisher | Doubleday, 1954 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 3 Feb 2011 |
| Length | 279 pages |
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