“I felt ill at ease with all this air about me, lost before the confusion of innumerable prospects.”
Samuel Beckett (1906–1989) Irish novelist, playwright, and poet
The Expelled (1946)
“Wandering and confused, lost to myself, ill-assorted, contradictory, Pausing, gazing, bending, and stopping”
— Nicholas Sparks, book The Notebook
Source: The Notebook
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