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The narrator was engrossed in reading Bergson's *Time and Free Will* in English translation while on a train and was particularly focused on the author's argument regarding freedom and motives.
I could not say at which station the woman and her baby entered the train.
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The narrator was engrossed in reading Bergson's *Time and Free Will* in English translation while on a train and was particularly focused on the author's argument regarding freedom and motives.
I could not say at which station the woman and her baby entered the train.
Since we had left London, I had been engrossed in Henri Bergson's Time and Free Will as it in the English translation.
I agreed with his conclusion in advance, but I wished to master his reasoning.
It is at the great and solemn crisis decisive of our reputation with others that we choose in defiance of what is conventionally called a motive. And this absence of any tangible reason is the more striking the deeper our freedom goes.
This absence of any tangible reason is the more striking the deeper our freedom goes.