Others, after long fretting, fall into a kind of apathy and become imbeciles for life, others, of frail and delicate constitution, fade away in languor, but there are yet others whose nervous systems break down and they go raving mad.
 Denis Diderot, The Nun (1796). copy citation

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Author Denis Diderot
Source The Nun
Topic apathy life
Date 1796
Language English
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Note Translated by Leonard Tancock
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