Growing: An Autobiography of the Years 1904-1911, Volume 2"Leonard Woolf, aged twenty-four, went forth to help rule the British Empire. He returned home to London at thirty-one an older and wiser man. Soon afterward, he married Virginia Stephen. Growing is the story of the years in between, just before the growth of the Bloomsbury Group in London." -- Dust jacket. |
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... one's mother's womb one leaves a life of dim security for a world of violent diffi- culties and dangers . Few , if ... one's character and one's attitude to life . I was leaving in England everyone and everything I knew ; I was going to ...
... one's mother's womb one leaves a life of dim security for a world of violent diffi- culties and dangers . Few , if ... one's character and one's attitude to life . I was leaving in England everyone and everything I knew ; I was going to ...
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... 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 enor- mously affected by the tempo of ordinary transport , the pace at which one ...
... 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 enor- mously affected by the tempo of ordinary transport , the pace at which one ...
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... one's own personality and of the people whom one has known , and secondly of the society and age in which one lived . To do this entails revealing as simply as possible one's own simplicity , absurdity , trivialities , nastiness . Now ...
... one's own personality and of the people whom one has known , and secondly of the society and age in which one lived . To do this entails revealing as simply as possible one's own simplicity , absurdity , trivialities , nastiness . Now ...
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