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H. G. Wells (Herbert George)

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At times I suffer from the strangest sense of detachment from myself and the world about me; I seem to watch it all from the outside, from somewhere inconceivably remote, out of time, out of space, out of the stress and tragedy of it all.
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Book I, Ch. 7

 
H. G. Wells (Herbert George)

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