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Passion is not so much an emotion as a destiny. What choice have I in the face of this wind but to put up sail and rest my oars?…
I spent the weeks that followed in a hectic stupor.
Is there such a thing? There is. It is the condition that most resembles a particular kind of mental disorder… It manifests itself as a compulsion to be forever doing something, however meaningless. The body must move but the mind is blank. Jeanette Winterson, The Passion.
date: April, the 13th in 2012.I spent the weeks that followed in a hectic stupor.
Is there such a thing? There is. It is the condition that most resembles a particular kind of mental disorder… It manifests itself as a compulsion to be forever doing something, however meaningless. The body must move but the mind is blank. Jeanette Winterson, The Passion.
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