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59 WHEn i EntErEd uniVErSity year in, year out, i drudged to see the day i reached my aspiration. Here at last i am at destination: student at the university. At first i wanted to read law; my mood, however, would not suffer dusty paragraphs. Such offer of quick madness would not draw. My love foreclosed theology, my fears precluded medicine. For frazzled nerves a better discipline remained : alone philosophy. The Alma Mater wants me to achieve the spectrum of the arts. But even if the master’s grade i ne’er receive, at least i am a master on the eve. A caricature of young René made by his friend Emil Orlik in Prague, 1894. ...

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