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Quotation from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
“As you got older, and felt yourself to be at the centre of your time, and not at a point in its circumference, as you had felt when you were little, you were seized with a sort of shuddering, he perceived.”
Jude the Obscure, Part First, Ch. II (Project Gutenberg text)
After being beaten for feeding the rooks, the boy Jude lies in the field and dreads growing up.
Citation: "As you got older, and felt yourself to be at the centre of your time, and not at a point in its circumference, as you had felt when you were little, you were seized with a sort of shuddering, he perceived." — Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure, Part First, Ch. II (Project Gutenberg text). (id jude-the-obscure-q1)
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