Entire years had passed when he was rich enough in time to disregard the loose change of a minute, but now he obsessed o — Anthony Marra, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
Entire years had passed when he was rich enough in time to disregard the loose change of a minute, but now he obsessed o — Anthony Marra, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
Entire years had passed when he was rich enough in time to disregard the loose change of a minute, but now he obsessed o — Anthony Marra, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
Entire years had passed when he was rich enough in time to disregard the loose change of a minute, but now he obsessed o — Anthony Marra, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
Entire years had passed when he was rich enough in time to disregard the loose change of a minute, but now he obsessed o — Anthony Marra, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
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Entire years had passed when he was rich enough in time to disregard the loose change of a minute, but now he obsessed over each one, this minute, the next minute, the one following, all of which were different terms for the same illusion.

— Anthony Marra, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
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