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Page 51
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 and
gradation of tone, ...
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 and
gradation of tone, ...
Page 63
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, as though
she ...
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, as though
she ...
Page 74
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. This was more than I could
bear to ...
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. This was more than I could
bear to ...
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Contents
Whirlpool page | 7 |
Blue Torches | 23 |
The Journalists Cafe | 36 |
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Bibliographic information
| 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, 1967 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 18 Apr 2008 |
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