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Chapter One THE VOYAGE OUT IP . n 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 ...
Chapter One THE VOYAGE OUT IP . n 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 ...
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Today one does the journey easily in four hours . The difference is not unimportant . 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 tempo ; the tempo of living is ...
Today one does the journey easily in four hours . The difference is not unimportant . 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 tempo ; the tempo of living is ...
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But if one has the temerity to write an autobiography , then one is under an obligation not to conceal . ... To do this entails revealing as simply as possible one's own simplicity , absurdity , trivialities , nastiness .
But if one has the temerity to write an autobiography , then one is under an obligation not to conceal . ... To do this entails revealing as simply as possible one's own simplicity , absurdity , trivialities , nastiness .
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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 Volume 2 of Woolf, Leonard: An autobiography of the years |
| Author | Leonard Woolf |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Harcourt, Brace & World, 1962 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | 30 Sep 2008 |
| Length | 256 pages |
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