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Page 46
... one's private life and banking account , are falling about one's head , when one is contemplating suicide by asphyxiation in a damp and dirty garage after break- fast , one continues to cook and eat one's eggs and bacon for breakfast ...
... one's private life and banking account , are falling about one's head , when one is contemplating suicide by asphyxiation in a damp and dirty garage after break- fast , one continues to cook and eat one's eggs and bacon for breakfast ...
Page 170
... one's own impotence to con- trol one's own fate or to affect in any way the march of events : the first , which the enormous majority of human beings adopt from birth to death , is to ignore it all , make the best of it , earn one's ...
... one's own impotence to con- trol one's own fate or to affect in any way the march of events : the first , which the enormous majority of human beings adopt from birth to death , is to ignore it all , make the best of it , earn one's ...
Page 173
... one's life , one of the curious things Loo one notices is how two or three small events happened years and years ago , then for years the consequences dis- appear beneath the surface of one's life like underground springs or streams ...
... one's life , one of the curious things Loo one notices is how two or three small events happened years and years ago , then for years the consequences dis- appear beneath the surface of one's life like underground springs or streams ...
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