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No one can tell the whole truth about himself . It is not only vanity that has prevented those who have tried to reveal themselves to the world from telling the whole truth ; it is direction of interest ; their disappointment with ...
No one can tell the whole truth about himself . It is not only vanity that has prevented those who have tried to reveal themselves to the world from telling the whole truth ; it is direction of interest ; their disappointment with ...
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With other men , the life they lead makes one side of them predominant , so that , except perhaps in the depths of the subconscious , it ends by being the whole man . But the painter , the writer , the saint , is always looking in ...
With other men , the life they lead makes one side of them predominant , so that , except perhaps in the depths of the subconscious , it ends by being the whole man . But the painter , the writer , the saint , is always looking in ...
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I was looking for a system of philosophy as coherent and self - contained as Bradley's , in which one part hung necessarily on another , so that nothing could be altered without the whole fabric falling to pieces .
I was looking for a system of philosophy as coherent and self - contained as Bradley's , in which one part hung necessarily on another , so that nothing could be altered without the whole fabric falling to pieces .
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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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