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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.

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Henry: I usen't to need anyone, just to myself, stories, there was a great one about an old fellow called Bolton, I never finished it, I never finishe...more

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To have been always what I am - and so changed from what I was.

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The new light above my table is a great improvement. With all this darkness around me I feel less alone. (Pause.) In a way. (Pause.) I love to get up ...more

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For in me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining that life might b...more

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But even them, my pains, I understand ill. That must come from my not being all pain and nothing else. There's the rub. Then they recede, or I, till t...more