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... death in 1922 , he suffered from poverty and obscurity . No writer of genius has ever lived so many years without public recognition . Although a few literary men did him homage , his fame may be said to have begun with his death , and ...
... death in 1922 , he suffered from poverty and obscurity . No writer of genius has ever lived so many years without public recognition . Although a few literary men did him homage , his fame may be said to have begun with his death , and ...
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... death - I knew there was such a thing ; I knew that all animals had to die , also that some men died . For how could any one , even a child in its sixth year , overlook such a fact , especially in the country of my birth - a land of bat ...
... death - I knew there was such a thing ; I knew that all animals had to die , also that some men died . For how could any one , even a child in its sixth year , overlook such a fact , especially in the country of my birth - a land of bat ...
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... DEATH OR the rest , if we seek a reason of the succession and continuance of this boundless ambition in mortal men ... Death upon his first approach . It is he that puts into man all the wisdom of the world , without speaking a word ...
... DEATH OR the rest , if we seek a reason of the succession and continuance of this boundless ambition in mortal men ... Death upon his first approach . It is he that puts into man all the wisdom of the world , without speaking a word ...
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