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| 3 | 18 | For View more quotes about days">days it dominated my consciousness, obsessing me. |
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| 3 | 15 | Thus I had hoped to put it from me, but I knew the thing had happened, that the words had been said, and had had their meaning, that which they had had at the time, and not necessarily that which I might now fervently desire to ascribe to them, and to such a man. |
| 3 | 16 | That the paper might be burned could not undo what was now transcribed in the reality of the world. |
| 3 | 17 | The incident, as you might well imagine, had much disturbed me. |
| 3 | 18 | For days it dominated my consciousness, obsessing me. |
| 3 | 19 | Then, later, mercifully, when I gradually began to understand how foolish my fears were, I was able to return my attention to the important routines of my life, my duties in the library, my reading, my shopping, and so on. |
| 3 | 20 | Once in a while, of course, the terrors and alarms of that incident, suddenly, unexpectedly, would rise up, flooding back upon me, but, on the whole, I had, it seemed, forgotten about it. |
| 3 | 21 | I rationally dismissed it, which was the healthy thing to do. |