"Feel oddly barren. My sickness is when words draw in their horns and the physical world refuses to be ordered, recreated, arranged and selected. I am ...

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It was comforting to know I had fallen and could fall no farther.

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"So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.