“I seem to have always one little window looking but into life.”
Emma Lazarus (1849–1887) American poet
From her obituary in Century Magazine
“Why am I always looking at life through a window?”
— Daniel Keyes, book Flowers for Algernon
Source: Flowers for Algernon
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