“I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself king of infinite space.”
Variant: O God, I could be bound in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space – were it not that I have bad dreams.
Source: Hamlet
“I understood that I was inventing myself, and that I was doing this more in the way of a painter than in the way of a scientist. I could not count on precision or calculation; I could only count on intuition.”
Source: Lucy
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