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Page 123
There are men who weep , who beat their heads against the wall if a woman falls out of love with them . But I never went in for suffering . If a woman had had enough of me —well , I'd had my fun and that was that .
There are men who weep , who beat their heads against the wall if a woman falls out of love with them . But I never went in for suffering . If a woman had had enough of me —well , I'd had my fun and that was that .
Page 189
Some actually hoped for a gang to shoot up the train ' properly ' — the woman on her chest made a perfect target and , we all thought , was bound to be killed before anyone else . Somewhere past Bobrinskaya station , our thirst for ...
Some actually hoped for a gang to shoot up the train ' properly ' — the woman on her chest made a perfect target and , we all thought , was bound to be killed before anyone else . Somewhere past Bobrinskaya station , our thirst for ...
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Two hefty fellows and you can't lift a chest , ' said the woman . ' Bring it over here . ' ' You try , ' said the engine driver . ' It needs a crowbar . I'll get one now . ' He climbed into the cab , but instead of coming back with a ...
Two hefty fellows and you can't lift a chest , ' said the woman . ' Bring it over here . ' ' You try , ' said the engine driver . ' It needs a crowbar . I'll get one now . ' He climbed into the cab , but instead of coming back with a ...
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Blue Torches | 23 |
The Journalists Café | 36 |
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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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