The Summing UpAutobiographical and confessional, and yet not, this is one of the most highly regarded expressions of a personal credo - both a classic avowal of an author's ideas and his craft. |
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I do not know whether it was a subconscious feeling that this sort of writing was contrary to my bent or a naturally methodical cast of mind that led me then to turn my attention to the writers of the Augustan Period .
I do not know whether it was a subconscious feeling that this sort of writing was contrary to my bent or a naturally methodical cast of mind that led me then to turn my attention to the writers of the Augustan Period .
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His mind was restless . He was like an architect who , when you want a house to live in , having persuaded you to build it of brick , then sets before you good reasons why it should be built of stone ; but when you have agreed to this ...
His mind was restless . He was like an architect who , when you want a house to live in , having persuaded you to build it of brick , then sets before you good reasons why it should be built of stone ; but when you have agreed to this ...
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Everything knowable , every fact of experience , is an idea in his mind , and without his mind does not exist . There is no possibility and no necessity for him to postulate anything outside himself . For him dream and reality are one .
Everything knowable , every fact of experience , is an idea in his mind , and without his mind does not exist . There is no possibility and no necessity for him to postulate anything outside himself . For him dream and reality are one .
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