“I can feel a thing I cannot touch and touch a thing I cannot feel. The first is sad and sorry, the second is your heart.”

— James Thurber , book The 13 Clocks

Source: The 13 Clocks

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American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright 1894–1961

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