"Not for the first time in my life, and certainly not for the last, a self-righteous gloom had edged out all semblance of logic."

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You were my last chance' she's said but don't all women say that? - But can it be by 'last chance' she doesn't mean mere marriage but some profoundly sad realization of something in me she really needs to go on living, at least that impression coming across anyway on the force of all the gloom we've shared -

— Jack Kerouac