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Chapter One THE VOYAGE OUT In October 1904, I sailed from Tilbury Docks in
the P. & O. Syria for Ceylon. I was a Cadet in the Ceylon Civil Service. To make a
complete break with one's former life is a strange, frightening, and exhilarating y ...
Chapter One THE VOYAGE OUT In October 1904, I sailed from Tilbury Docks in
the P. & O. Syria for Ceylon. I was a Cadet in the Ceylon Civil Service. To make a
complete break with one's former life is a strange, frightening, and exhilarating y ...
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Up in one's brain and deep down in one's heart and one's belly, the quality of
one's life is very much affected by its ... is itself enormously affected by the tempo
of ordinary transport, the pace at which one normally travels from place to place.
Up in one's brain and deep down in one's heart and one's belly, the quality of
one's life is very much affected by its ... is itself enormously affected by the tempo
of ordinary transport, the pace at which one normally travels from place to place.
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But if one has the temerity to write an autobiography, then one is under an
obligation not to conceal. The only point in an autobiography is to give, as far as
one can, in the most simple, clear, and truthful way, a picture, first of one's own ...
But if one has the temerity to write an autobiography, then one is under an
obligation not to conceal. The only point in an autobiography is to give, as far as
one can, in the most simple, clear, and truthful way, a picture, first of one's own ...
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| Title | Growing: An Autobiography of the Years 1904-1911, Volume 2 Growing: An Autobiography of the Years 1904-1911, Leonard Woolf |
| Author | Leonard Woolf |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Harcourt, Brace & World, Incorporated, 1962 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | 30 Sep 2008 |
| Length | 256 pages |
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