Suddenly summoned to witness something great and horrendous, we keep fighting not to reduce it to our own smallness.
..if I dont do something on the grand scale, it is that my genius is altogether imitative, and that I have nor recently encountered any very striking models of grandeur.
Roderick Hudson
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..if I dont do something on the grand scale, it is that my genius is altogether imitative, and that I have nor recently encountered any very striking models of grandeur.
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