self-tormenter's

Updated: May 6, 2025

In the most worn, pedantic, introverted self-tormenter's life, the greatest part is incalculable by him, unforeseen, unimaginable, and must be, until he can take himself up by his own ears. What am I? What has my will done to make me that I am? Nothing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson - Essays — First Series