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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 288
William Somerset Maugham. who were at their prime before the war look upon those years as did the survivors of the French Revolution when they look back on the Ancien Régime . They will not know the douceur de vivre . We live now on the ...
William Somerset Maugham. who were at their prime before the war look upon those years as did the survivors of the French Revolution when they look back on the Ancien Régime . They will not know the douceur de vivre . We live now on the ...
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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