and I told myself -- as I've told myself before -- that the body shuts down then the pain gets too bad, that consciousness is temporary, that this will pass. But just like always, I didn't slip away. I was left on the shore with the waves washing over me, unable to drown.
Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life__he life which has a seed of ennobling thought and purpose within it__an understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances.
Middlemarch
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Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life__he life which has a seed of ennobling thought and purpose within it__an understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances.
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