But Mole stood still a moment, held in thought. As one wakened suddenly from a beautiful dream, who … - Kenneth Grahame

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Some third person decides your fate: this is the whole essence of bureaucracy.

Kenneth Grahame

But Mole stood still a moment, held in thought. As one wakened suddenly from a beautiful dream, who struggles to recall it, but can recapture nothing but a dim sense of the beauty in it, the beauty! Till that, too, fades away in its turn, and the dreamer bitterly accepts the hard, cold waking and all its penalties.

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