I feel something like a powerful oppression, like an immense fatigue after marching across fever-laden jungles, or by the shores of deadly lakes...And I am flooded by discouragement, so that it seems I shall never be able to escape from myself again. (Octave Mirbeau)

I feel something like a powerful oppression, like an immense fatigue after marching across fever-laden jungles, or by the shores of deadly lakes...And I am flooded by discouragement, so that it seems I shall never be able to escape from myself again.

Octave Mirbeau

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