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It is curious — and then again , if one remembers Freud , it is of course not so curious — that I should remember so vividly , after 56 years , the incident and ...
It is curious — and then again , if one remembers Freud , it is of course not so curious — that I should remember so vividly , after 56 years , the incident and ...
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I can't write about anything else ; here are the only realities , and the curious feelings they excite , the only pleasant feelings . Perhaps they are not the only ones ; when I read your letters first , you are for the moment real ...
I can't write about anything else ; here are the only realities , and the curious feelings they excite , the only pleasant feelings . Perhaps they are not the only ones ; when I read your letters first , you are for the moment real ...
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It had normally a curious air of slight depression , but at the same time exclusiveness , superiority , isolation . Only the “ best people ” and of course only white men were members . At the same time there was none of the physical ...
It had normally a curious air of slight depression , but at the same time exclusiveness , superiority , isolation . Only the “ best people ” and of course only white men were members . At the same time there was none of the physical ...
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