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“During the years he was never sick, except of course for the chronic indigestion which was universal, and still is, with men who live…

— John Steinbeck

“He felt like a man whose fever had broken, flush with the euphoria of the first, tenuous return of strength—still weak, but buoyant with…

— Gaelen Foley

“For some years he had felt weighing on him the burden of loneliness which sometimes overwhelms old bachelors. He had been strong, active and…

— Guy de Maupassant

“He had grown fat on solitude, he thought, and had learned to expect nothing from the day but at best a dull contentment. Sometimes…

— Colm Tóibín

“He was sick, sick from the long dangerous trip he had taken, sick from all the medicine —the pills, the inoculations, the inhaled gases…

— Walter Tevis

“He cherished all those he treated, even the ones made mean by their sickness, even the ones he knew had been mean before they’d…

— Noah Gordon

“The room was filled with deep, raucous sighs, sudden sobs, silent floods of tears. The horrified musician stopped,and going up to the man whose…

— Charles Baudelaire

“A man leaves his great house because he's bored With life at home, and suddenly returns, Finding himself no happier abroad. He rushes off…

— Lucretius

“He was a blessing to all the juvenile part of the neighbourhood, for in summer he was for ever forming parties to eat cold…

— Jane Austen

“…he is invariably a kind of super-size but unmistakably ‘classical’ neurotic, an aberrant who only occasionally, and never deeply, wishes to surrender his aberration;…

— J.D. Salinger

“This lively health, when entirely free from all mixture of pain, of itself gives an inward pleasure, independent of all external objects of delight;…

— Thomas More

“In his life he'd passed through long periods of gratefulness and good cheer, but he'd scarcely even imagined this level of thorough contentment with…

— Chad Harbach