“Someone within me is struggling to lift a great weight, to cast off the mind and flesh by overcoming habit, laziness, necessity.”
The Saviors of God (1923)
Context: Someone within me is struggling to lift a great weight, to cast off the mind and flesh by overcoming habit, laziness, necessity.
I do not know from where he comes or where he goes. I clutch at his onward march in my ephemeral breast, I listen to his panting struggle, I shudder when I touch him.
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
