Patrick O'Brian Quotes

Physically He Was Tired And His Body Relaxed Throughout Its Entire Length; His Mind Was In Much The Same State, Floating Free, Detached, As Though He Had Taken His Old Favourite, The Tincture Of Laudanum. He Felt No Particular Anxiety. The Attempt Must Either Succeed Or Fail: He Hoped With All His Heart For Success, But 'all His Heart' Did Not Amount To A Great Deal Now That Some Essential Part Of Its Core Seemed To Have Died. Yet On The Other Hand He Felt More Able To Command Success In That It Meant No Less To Him - To Command It With A Strength That Arose Not From A Fundamental Indifference To His Own Fate But From Something Resembling It That He Could Not Define; It Had A Resemblance To Despair, But A Despair Long Past, With The Horror Taken Out Of It.

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