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I suspect that for a good deal of the time you live in a sort of glass case, not knowing real enthusiasm or genuine emotion; or feeling them perhaps at second hand, feeling them sometimes because you think you ought to, not because you really do.
I suspect that for a good deal of the time you live in a sort of glass case, not knowing real enthusiasm or genuine emotion; or feeling them perhaps at second hand, feeling them sometimes because you think you ought to, not because you really do.
Approximate author period: c. 1955 AD · modern
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- Winston Graham
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- Approximate author period: c. 1955 AD · modern
Approximate period for the recorded attribution to Winston Graham, based on documented lifetime 1908 to 2003. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q598029 (checked 2026-10-08). This is not a quotation composition date or independent authentication of its attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q598029 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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