Source: Rogue in Space (1957), Chapter 7 (p. 406)
“I give the fight up: let there be an end,
A privacy, an obscure nook for me.
I want to be forgotten even by God.”
Part 5.
Paracelsus (1835)
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As quoted at OneJerusalem.org (21 January 2002)
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