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He saw , with terrible lucidity , all the blundering chaos of life and smashed its pretensions to pulp ; yet he was not always emancipated or even cynical enough to free his mind of petty thoughts and contemptible desires .
He saw , with terrible lucidity , all the blundering chaos of life and smashed its pretensions to pulp ; yet he was not always emancipated or even cynical enough to free his mind of petty thoughts and contemptible desires .
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as Stephen also says , so recurrent a practice cannot but indicate a “ diseased ” mind . Yet that mind overtops in fascination even the vital , strong - edged , self - consuming personality that sought always to be master , yet was ...
as Stephen also says , so recurrent a practice cannot but indicate a “ diseased ” mind . Yet that mind overtops in fascination even the vital , strong - edged , self - consuming personality that sought always to be master , yet was ...
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Swift's undoing was that he allowed himself nothing to fall back on : beyond even rejecting the world with his mind , he recoiled from love , and in friendship he gave but would not ask or accept . ( Consider how , when Stella lay dying ...
Swift's undoing was that he allowed himself nothing to fall back on : beyond even rejecting the world with his mind , he recoiled from love , and in friendship he gave but would not ask or accept . ( Consider how , when Stella lay dying ...
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