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... write out of a sense of his own uncommonness , his " otherness " or his exemplary quality , either for good or evil ; on the contrary , his experiment was all the more valid because of his ordinariness , and one often senses that he is ...
... write out of a sense of his own uncommonness , his " otherness " or his exemplary quality , either for good or evil ; on the contrary , his experiment was all the more valid because of his ordinariness , and one often senses that he is ...
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... write them ? He himself posed the question over and over , without finding an answer . Yet we must believe his foreword : he did not write them for us . He wrote them for himself , for his own sake , out of inner necessity ; and yet he ...
... write them ? He himself posed the question over and over , without finding an answer . Yet we must believe his foreword : he did not write them for us . He wrote them for himself , for his own sake , out of inner necessity ; and yet he ...
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... write from casual impulse , but after a severe examination of his own strength , and with a resolution to leave ... writer , and exhausted every source of imitation , sacred or profane ; yet he is perfectly distinct from every other ...
... write from casual impulse , but after a severe examination of his own strength , and with a resolution to leave ... writer , and exhausted every source of imitation , sacred or profane ; yet he is perfectly distinct from every other ...
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HOMER The Iliad or The Poem of Force | 3 |
AESCHYLUS Introduction to the Oresteia | 51 |
Sophocles | 78 |
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