Is is as if life or reality itself has had it in mind all along to unravel the very design i have been trying all along to impose on it.
In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past__ensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.
Adam Bede
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In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past__ensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.
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