“Now and then it occurs to one to reflect upon what slender threads of accident depend the most important circumstances of his life; to look back and shudder, realizing how close to the edge of nothingness his being has come.”
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100%: the Story of a Patriot (1920)
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Source: Practical Pictorial Photography, 1898, Printing the picture and controlling its formation, p. 78

E. M. Forster, Introduction to Lampedusa's Two Stories and a Memory (New York: Pantheon, 1962) p. 13.
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Interview in Indian Express on Studios of Calcutta http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/actor-kunal-dies-of-heart-attack-while-on-shoot/413868/(2009)

"The Genealogy of Animals", p. 85
The Universal Kinship (1906), The Physical Kinship