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To make a complete break with one's former life is a strange , frightening , and exhilarating experience . It has upon one , I think , the effect of a second birth . When one emerges from one's mother's womb one leaves a life of dim ...
To make a complete break with one's former life is a strange , frightening , and exhilarating experience . It has upon one , I think , the effect of a second birth . When one emerges from one's mother's womb one leaves a life of dim ...
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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 tempo ; the tempo of living is itself enormously affected by the tempo of ordinary transport , the pace at which one ...
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 itself enormously affected by the tempo of ordinary transport , the pace at which one ...
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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 personality and of the people whom one has known , and secondly of the society and age in ...
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 personality and of the people whom one has known , and secondly of the society and age in ...
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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 Michigan |
| Digitized | 13 Sep 2007 |
| Length | 256 pages |
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