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drunk and feel a great love for my fellow men . ... The hysteria of the world repels me and I never feel more aloof than when I am in the midst of a throng surrendered to a violent feeling of mirth or sorrow . Though I have been in love ...
drunk and feel a great love for my fellow men . ... The hysteria of the world repels me and I never feel more aloof than when I am in the midst of a throng surrendered to a violent feeling of mirth or sorrow . Though I have been in love ...
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They have had an uneasy feel- ing that the whole thing was a sham . " What arrant hum- bugs these people are ! " they say . But the point of the writer is that he is not one man but many . It is because he is many that he can create ...
They have had an uneasy feel- ing that the whole thing was a sham . " What arrant hum- bugs these people are ! " they say . But the point of the writer is that he is not one man but many . It is because he is many that he can create ...
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What does one feel when for instance one looks at Titian's Entombment in the Louvre or listens to the quintet in ... It is an excitement that gives me a sense of exhilaration , intellectual but suffused with sensuality , a feeling of ...
What does one feel when for instance one looks at Titian's Entombment in the Louvre or listens to the quintet in ... It is an excitement that gives me a sense of exhilaration , intellectual but suffused with sensuality , a feeling of ...
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| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | W. Somerset Maugham |
| Published | 1938 |
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