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Quotation from Hard Times by Charles Dickens
“How could you give me life, and take from me all the inappreciable things that raise it from the state of conscious death?”
Hard Times, Book the Second, Chapter XII (Project Gutenberg #786 text)
Fleeing Harthouse, Louisa confronts her father in his study and tells him what his system has done to her.
Citation: "How could you give me life, and take from me all the inappreciable things that raise it from the state of conscious death?" — Charles Dickens, Hard Times, Book the Second, Chapter XII (Project Gutenberg #786 text). (id hard-times-q5)
Portrait: Dickens Gurney head, Jeremiah Gurney, Public domain.
