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I was in doubt, and then everything took a hue of unreality, and I did not know what to trust, even the evidence of my own senses. Not knowing what to trust, I did not know what to do; and so had only to keep on working in what had hitherto been the groove of my life. The groove ceased to avail me, and I mistrusted myself.

I was in doubt, and then everything took a hue of unreality, and I did not know what to trust, even the evidence of my own senses. Not knowing what to trust, I did not know what to do; and so had only to keep on working in what had hitherto been the groove of my life. The groove ceased to avail me, and I mistrusted myself.

Approximate author period: c. 1879 AD · industrial

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Author or tradition
Bram Stoker
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Approximate author period: c. 1879 AD · industrial
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1847 to 1912; Wikidata Q36184, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q36184 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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