Sanity is permanent, neurosis is temporary.
How was I to know idiocy was only a temporary condition, especially in your case? It never has been before!
Throughout much of our lives, our association with the temporary has risen. This transitory body, a sack of bones and flesh, is considered erroneously as our true body and we have accepted this temporary condition as conclusive.
I have gone temporarily deaf and haven't any idea what you said, Harry.
Physical pain is temporary.
By the time I got to the hospital, I certainly realised that I had a problem because I couldn't write or print at that time, which lasted luckily only about four months. I'd gone numb here and on my tongue and the right foot a little bit.