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Page xiv
... soul and Man's affairs . The people with whom I disagree about the war and who disapprove of me , are , as it seems to me , ego - centric and subjected to the optical illusion of the here and the now , that optical illusion which is ...
... soul and Man's affairs . The people with whom I disagree about the war and who disapprove of me , are , as it seems to me , ego - centric and subjected to the optical illusion of the here and the now , that optical illusion which is ...
Page xxxvi
... soul ; while our blockade's slow , steady killing of scores of Central European children , born and unborn , has barely caught the tail of our eye : has indeed been so little noticed as almost to constitute an alibi for our collective ...
... soul ; while our blockade's slow , steady killing of scores of Central European children , born and unborn , has barely caught the tail of our eye : has indeed been so little noticed as almost to constitute an alibi for our collective ...
Page xlv
... soul ; and they prolong their own lease of existence either through spiritual inertia or by the need for self - respect which makes us often more loyal to our mistakes than to our standards and ideals . They are war's unrecognized ...
... soul ; and they prolong their own lease of existence either through spiritual inertia or by the need for self - respect which makes us often more loyal to our mistakes than to our standards and ideals . They are war's unrecognized ...
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... souls . To think that poets and divines have packed these restful solitudes with brimstone flames , bogs of boiling mud , lakes of ice , viewless winds , all crammed with garrulous deceased humans ! Little did I guess , when I made all ...
... souls . To think that poets and divines have packed these restful solitudes with brimstone flames , bogs of boiling mud , lakes of ice , viewless winds , all crammed with garrulous deceased humans ! Little did I guess , when I made all ...
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... of quickening forces making for shape from substance and for soul from motion . I was not born yet . THE MUSE ( still irritated ) . That much is not unknown . You were an afterthought , my dear Lord Satan , 16 SATAN THE WASTER.
... of quickening forces making for shape from substance and for soul from motion . I was not born yet . THE MUSE ( still irritated ) . That much is not unknown . You were an afterthought , my dear Lord Satan , 16 SATAN THE WASTER.
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