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At least some are bound to pique your imagination, whereupon Burden will have possessed you like a demon, never to be exorcised.

From The New Yorker • May 19, 2015

The prize he has striven for through these weary years, for which he has borne mockery and privation, is now all but within his grasp; in another hour or two he will have possessed it.

From Triumphs of Invention and Discovery in Art and Science by Fyfe, J. Hamilton