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The actress was still little better than an automaton, so Helva took advantage of her will-lessness to make her give Kurla and Prane the first injections.
the ship who sang McCaffrey, Anne, 1926- 1969
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The actress was still little better than an automaton, so Helva took advantage of her will-lessness to make her give Kurla and Prane the first injections.
The Ship Who Sang McCaffrey, Anne, 1926- 1969
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As a tame, slave dog, he is profited by abject submission, by a crawling will-lessness that grovels at a blow, and licks the foot that kicks it.
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The world of Calypso is that of self-indulgence, inactivity, will-lessness, to which Ulysses has sunk after his sin against the source of light, after his negation of all intelligence.
Homer's Odyssey A Commentary Denton Jaques Snider 1883
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The will must turn away from existence, must turn to will-lessness; for existence is absolutely null, and the will a delusion, from which we must become free,
Christian Ethics. Volume I.���History of Ethics. 1819-1870 1873
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