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Give my compliments to your mother. From Commissar Anokhin, Pavel
Zakharovich, tell her. A remarkable old lady, she must be. Fancy planning to walk
to Moscow.' We shook hands. I still couldn't get out a word. He straightened the
leather ...
Give my compliments to your mother. From Commissar Anokhin, Pavel
Zakharovich, tell her. A remarkable old lady, she must be. Fancy planning to walk
to Moscow.' We shook hands. I still couldn't get out a word. He straightened the
leather ...
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came up to me and, pointing in the direction of Russia, barked out: 'ZurikkP 'Give
him five rubles in Tsarist money,' the driver told me. 'That'll get rid of the bastard.' I
held out a ten-ruble note. 'No, no!' the soldier shouted, shaking his head and ...
came up to me and, pointing in the direction of Russia, barked out: 'ZurikkP 'Give
him five rubles in Tsarist money,' the driver told me. 'That'll get rid of the bastard.' I
held out a ten-ruble note. 'No, no!' the soldier shouted, shaking his head and ...
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For a writer, to give to the beloved was to give to mankind — I was sure of this ill-
defined law of generosity, of total self-gift: to give away and expect nothing, ask
for nothing in return, except perhaps the merest trifle, no bigger than a grain of ...
For a writer, to give to the beloved was to give to mankind — I was sure of this ill-
defined law of generosity, of total self-gift: to give away and expect nothing, ask
for nothing in return, except perhaps the merest trifle, no bigger than a grain of ...
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Contents
Whirlpool page | 7 |
Blue Torches | 23 |
The Journalists Café | 36 |
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| Title | Story of a Life: In that dawn Volume 3 of Story of a Life, Konstantin Paustovsky |
| Author | Konstantin Paustovsky |
| Translated by | Manya Harari |
| Publisher | Harvill Press, 1967 |
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