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Page 117
... 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 hav- ing 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 hav- ing to think how to describe it . I meant then never to write another ...
Page 265
William Somerset Maugham. can look upon those of others , which seem so often unmerited , with an equal mind . If Karma were true one could look upon them with pity , but with forti- tude . Revulsion would be out of place and life would ...
William Somerset Maugham. can look upon those of others , which seem so often unmerited , with an equal mind . If Karma were true one could look upon them with pity , but with forti- tude . Revulsion would be out of place and life would ...
Page 308
... look at from a distance and know for the mirage it was . 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 ...
... look at from a distance and know for the mirage it was . 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 ...
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