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... create a figure to protect them- selves from the world or to impress it . Their idiosyn- crasies have had more chance to develop in the limited circle of their activity , and since they have never been in the public eye it has never ...
... create a figure to protect them- selves from the world or to impress it . Their idiosyn- crasies have had more chance to develop in the limited circle of their activity , and since they have never been in the public eye it has never ...
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... creates it in the same way as we through our senses from the objective data create the beauty of the sunrise and the peace of the sea . The audience is not the least important actor in the play , and if it will not do its allotted share ...
... creates it in the same way as we through our senses from the objective data create the beauty of the sunrise and the peace of the sea . The audience is not the least important actor in the play , and if it will not do its allotted share ...
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... creating living people , do not know what on earth to do with them when they have created them . They cannot invent a plausible story . Like all writers ( and in all writers there is a certain amount of humbug ) they make a merit of ...
... creating living people , do not know what on earth to do with them when they have created them . They cannot invent a plausible story . Like all writers ( and in all writers there is a certain amount of humbug ) they make a merit of ...
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