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When I left home for Harrow in the spring of 1854—it was the month of May—I had acquired a somewhat curious personality. Weakness and strength, stoicism and sensibility, frigidity and tenderness, ignorance of the world and stubborn resistance to external influences, were strangely blent in my raw nature. The main thing which maintained me was a sense of self, imperious, antagonistic, unmalleable. But what that self was, and why it kept aloof, I did not know.
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Regis, A.K. (2016). Chapter 4: Second Period of Boyhood—Harrow on the Hill—From the Year 1854 to the Year 1858. In: Regis, A. (eds) The Memoirs of John Addington Symonds. Genders and Sexualities in History. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-29124-0_6
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