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But the time came when I awakened from this as from a dream.

At this my heart sank within me: the whole foundation on which my life was constructed fell down.

The end had ceased to charm, and how could there ever again be any interest in the means?

I seemed to have nothing left to live for.

A night's sleep, the sovereign remedy for the smaller vexations of life, had no effect on it.

The result was that I gradually, but completely, emerged from my habitual depression, and was never again subject to it.