“There can never be a man so lost as one who is lost in the vast and intricate corrdiors of his own lonely mind, where none may reach and none may save. There never was a man so helpless as one who cannot remember.”

Source: Empire novels (1950–1952), Pebble in the Sky (1950), Chapter 5 "The Involuntary Volunteer" (p. 57)

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American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston Uni… 1920–1992

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