I want to escape from myself. For when I do start up and stare myself …

Charles Dickens
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I want to escape from myself. For when I do start up and stare myself seedily in the face, as happens to be my case at present, my blankness is inconceivable--indescribable--my misery amazing. ✨ Charles Dickens, Jenny Hartley (2012). The Selected Letters of Charles Dickens, p.321, Oxford University Press
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