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“The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.”

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Inactivity and deprivation of all accustomed stimulus is not rest; it is a preparation for the tomb

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“My lifelong involvement with Mrs Dempster began at 5:58 o'clock p.m. on 27 December 1908, at which time I was ten years and seven months old.”

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