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to God and to art, he decides to become a church organist. He falls in love with
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who gradually recounts his life story to another person as the flour of the windmill is being milled. Olesis, also known as
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to form a new government. Conflict with
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Lithuanian literature. The main themes of his earlier novels were usually unhappy love and its stoic survival. Šeinius' prose also included themes of
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which officially allowed him to become a teacher. From then on he would be involved in the press, usually creating and publishing short poems.
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