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I want to escape from myself. For when I do start up and stare myself seedily in the face, as happens to be my case at present, my blankness is inconc...more

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I care for no man on earth, and no man on earth cares for me.

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There have been occasions in my later life (I suppose as in most lives) when I have felt for a time as if a thick curtain had fallen on all its intere...more

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I work pretty hard for a sufficient living, and therefore – yes, I do well.

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In the little world in which children have their existence whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injust...more

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There have been occasions in my later life (I suppose in most lives) when I have felt for a time as if a thick curtain had fallen on all interest in r...more

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Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercises, even over the appearance of external objects. Men who look on nature, and th...more

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Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused—in whose mind some pleasant assoc...more