If in this world there is one misery having no relief, it i… - Thomas de Quincey

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If in this world there is one misery having no relief, it is the pressure on the heart from the Incommunicable. And if another Sphinx should arise to propose another enigma to man–saying, what burden is that which only is insupportable by human fortitude? I should answer at once: It is the burden of the Incommunicable

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Thomas Penson De Quincey (August 15, 1785 – December 8, 1859) was an English essayist and intellectual.

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