Charles Dickens Quote

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.


The heart of Charles Dickens: as revealed in his letters to Angela Burdett-Coutts (ed. Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1952)


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...

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...

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...

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...