I suppose one has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.
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Truly nothing is to be expected but the unexpected.Alice James
I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.
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Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.
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Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity.
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The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape.
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