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When you've been used to doing things, and they've been taken away from you, it's as if your hands had been cut off, and you felt the fingers as are of no use to you.

George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.1825, Delphi Classics
When you've been used to doing things, and they've been taken away from you, it's as if your hands had been cut off, and you felt the fingers as are of no use to you.