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Page 107
... 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 to think how to describe it . I meant then never to write another ...
... 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 to think how to describe it . I meant then never to write another ...
Page 271
... look at from a distance and know for the mirage it was . When I look back on my life , with its successes and its 271 THE SUMMING UP.
... look at from a distance and know for the mirage it was . When I look back on my life , with its successes and its 271 THE SUMMING UP.
Page 275
... look back on me when in what must now be a very short time I leave them . Unlike old Omar I would not even have them turn down an empty glass when among the guests star - scattered on the grass , ' where I made one , they pass . I have ...
... look back on me when in what must now be a very short time I leave them . Unlike old Omar I would not even have them turn down an empty glass when among the guests star - scattered on the grass , ' where I made one , they pass . I have ...
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