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Books , he said , are the sole repository of human thought , its only vehicle of transmission from century to century , from generation to generation . They preserve it through all time in its primordial freshness , in all its variety ...
Books , he said , are the sole repository of human thought , its only vehicle of transmission from century to century , from generation to generation . They preserve it through all time in its primordial freshness , in all its variety ...
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I thought of Lenin - the huge mass movement he led , and the astonishingly simple man I had just seen walking through the crowd . I thought of the recruit , and of the young peasant girl- half in love with her across the years ...
I thought of Lenin - the huge mass movement he led , and the astonishingly simple man I had just seen walking through the crowd . I thought of the recruit , and of the young peasant girl- half in love with her across the years ...
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An old man as bony as a skeleton , with a close - cropped head and a worn black jacket , bent low over his canvas briefcase , opened it carefully , put the flower inside and , I thought , dropped a tear into it as well .
An old man as bony as a skeleton , with a close - cropped head and a worn black jacket , bent low over his canvas briefcase , opened it carefully , put the flower inside and , I thought , dropped a tear into it as well .
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Contents
Whirlpool page | 7 |
Blue Torches | 23 |
The Journalists Café | 36 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | The Story of a Life: In that dawn Volume 3 of The Story of a Life, Konstantin Paustovsky |
| Author | Konstantin Paustovsky |
| Publisher | Pantheon Books, 1964 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 18 Apr 2008 |
| Length | 661 pages |
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