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The Hellene exists as an individual, a separate person within a community. The Germanic individual exists only as the representative, nay, as the personification of a whole. One might imagine that a supreme convulsion of the soul must tear the individual out from that whole, and let him feel him-self, speak as for himself. But actually, it is the opposite that takes place; the more the soul is moved, the more the individual personality is lost in the kin. At the very moment when man most passion
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― The Culture of the Teutons: Volumes 1 and 2
― The Culture of the Teutons: Volumes 1 and 2
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We are pilgrims who are going to the Holy Land.
His language seemed understandable, albeit strange, to the residents of Zara. The revelers' own speech was already garbled, too, so they regarded it with a fitting tolerance. Calmer already, they said to Arseny: Go on, then, cross yourself.
Arseny crossed himself.
The storm resumed in the same breath:
He cannot even cross himself properly! Could we have expected anything else from the Turkish infiltrators?
For a while, Ambrogio attempted to ex
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― Laurus
― Laurus
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