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Page 40
... seen people all of a piece . It has amazed me that the most incongruous traits should exist in the same person and for all that yield a plausible harmony . I have often asked myself how characteristics , seemingly irreconcilable , can ...
... seen people all of a piece . It has amazed me that the most incongruous traits should exist in the same person and for all that yield a plausible harmony . I have often asked myself how characteristics , seemingly irreconcilable , can ...
Page 47
... seen men through my own idiosyncrasies . A buoyant , optimistic , healthy and sentimental person would have seen the same people quite differently . I can only claim to have seen them coherently . Many writers seem to me not to ...
... seen men through my own idiosyncrasies . A buoyant , optimistic , healthy and sentimental person would have seen the same people quite differently . I can only claim to have seen them coherently . Many writers seem to me not to ...
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... seen in others they were accused of maligning the human race . So far as I know the first novelist who did this with deliberate intention . was Stendhal in Le Rouge et le Noir . Contemporary criticism was outraged . Even Sainte - Beuve ...
... seen in others they were accused of maligning the human race . So far as I know the first novelist who did this with deliberate intention . was Stendhal in Le Rouge et le Noir . Contemporary criticism was outraged . Even Sainte - Beuve ...
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