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And yet at other times I am melted with the sense of their helpless , charming and
quite irresistible beauty — their ability to go on loving and trusting — their
staunchness and decency and unselfconsciousness . I love them . But it ' s in the
...
And yet at other times I am melted with the sense of their helpless , charming and
quite irresistible beauty — their ability to go on loving and trusting — their
staunchness and decency and unselfconsciousness . I love them . But it ' s in the
...
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Paralyzed by the sense that there exists a mesh of relations , between e . g . my
rejection and anger at [ my eldest child ) , my sensual life , pacifism , sex ( I mean
in its broadest significance , not merely physical desire ) an interconnectedness ...
Paralyzed by the sense that there exists a mesh of relations , between e . g . my
rejection and anger at [ my eldest child ) , my sensual life , pacifism , sex ( I mean
in its broadest significance , not merely physical desire ) an interconnectedness ...
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Let us try to imagine for a moment what sense of herself it gave a woman to be in
the presence of such images . If they did nothing else for her , they must have
validated her spiritually ( as our contemporary images do not ) , giving her back ...
Let us try to imagine for a moment what sense of herself it gave a woman to be in
the presence of such images . If they did nothing else for her , they must have
validated her spiritually ( as our contemporary images do not ) , giving her back ...
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Anger and Tenderness | 1 |
The Sacred Calling | 23 |
The Kingdom of the Fathers | 39 |
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