“I have a vague expectation of some crisis, — I know not what.”

—  Margaret Fuller

Letter (Spring 1850).
Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1852)
Context: I have a vague expectation of some crisis, — I know not what. But it has long seemed, that, in the year 1850, I should stand on a plateau in the ascent of life, where I should be allowed to pause for a while, and take more clear and commanding views than ever before. Yet my life proceeds as regularly as the fates of a Greek tragedy, and I can but accept the pages as they turn.

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