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I looked for a meaning in the universe and the only one I could find was the beauty that men here and there produced . On the surface my life was varied and exciting ; but beneath it was narrow . Now I entered ą new world , and all the ...
I looked for a meaning in the universe and the only one I could find was the beauty that men here and there produced . On the surface my life was varied and exciting ; but beneath it was narrow . Now I entered ą new world , and all the ...
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76 BEAUTY STANDS IN a better case . For many years I thought that it was beauty alone that gave significance to life and that the only purpose that could be assigned to the teeming generations that succeed one another on the face of the ...
76 BEAUTY STANDS IN a better case . For many years I thought that it was beauty alone that gave significance to life and that the only purpose that could be assigned to the teeming generations that succeed one another on the face of the ...
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I suppose that we mean by beauty that object , spiritual or material , more often material , which satisfies our ęsthetic sense . That , however , tells you just about as much as you would know about water if you were told that it was ...
I suppose that we mean by beauty that object , spiritual or material , more often material , which satisfies our ęsthetic sense . That , however , tells you just about as much as you would know about water if you were told that it was ...
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| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | W. Somerset Maugham |
| Published | 1938 |
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