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Page 83
Passing the Comedy Theatre I happened to look up and saw the clouds lit by the setting sun . I paused to look at the lovely sight and I thought to myself : Thank God , I can look at a sunset now without having ...
Passing the Comedy Theatre I happened to look up and saw the clouds lit by the setting sun . I paused to look at the lovely sight and I thought to myself : Thank God , I can look at a sunset now without having ...
Page 187
It is possible to achieve resignation in regard to one's own , but only philosophers obsessed with the perfection of the Absolute can look upon those of others , which seem so often un- merited , with an equal mind .
It is possible to achieve resignation in regard to one's own , but only philosophers obsessed with the perfection of the Absolute can look upon those of others , which seem so often un- merited , with an equal mind .
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When I look back on my life , with its successes and its failures , its endless errors , its deceptions and its fulfilments , its joys and miseries , it seems to me strangely lacking in reality . It is shadowy and unsubstantial .
When I look back on my life , with its successes and its failures , its endless errors , its deceptions and its fulfilments , its joys and miseries , it seems to me strangely lacking in reality . It is shadowy and unsubstantial .
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| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | W. Somerset Maugham |
| Published | 1938 |
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