“Reasons for Admission 1864 to 1889 Intemperance & Business Trouble Kicked in the Head by a Horse Hereditary Predisposition Ill Treatment by Husband Imaginary Female Trouble Hysteria Immoral Life Imprisonment Jealousy and Religion Laziness Marriage of Son Masturbation & Syphilis Masturbation for 30 Years Medicine to Prevent Conception Menstrual Deranged Mental Excitement Novel Reading Nymphomania Opium Habit Over Action Of The Mind”
― Night Watch
― Night Watch
“This was quite the leap, since at the time insects were believed to spontaneously generate.”
― Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life
― Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life
“Poetry endows our stay on earth and constitutes the only spiritual path. To name an object is to suppress three-quarters of the enjoyment to be found in a poem... suggestion, that is the dream.”
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