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Some Reminiscences (A Personal Record) (1912)

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  2. When he stepped off the straight and narrow path of his peculiar honesty, it was with an inward assertion of unflinching resolve to fall ba…
  3. It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
  4. What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.
  5. The more I write the less substance do I see in my work, ... It is tolerably awful. And I face it, I face it but the fright is growing on m…
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  7. Running all over the sea trying to get behind the weather.
  8. The sea never changes and its works, for all the talk of men, are wrapped in mystery.

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