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"I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair."
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"Then suddenly you're left all alonewith your body that can't love youand your will that can't save you."

"You take away my golden dreams and my visions of paradise, in its place you wake me up and hand me your reasons and facts and crude reality. You have ruined my life. If I commit murder or hang myself, let the god I used to pray to repay you in full."

"Thoughts and sorrows seem to have remained on the other side of the mountains. Between tormented men and hateful deeds, a person has to think and sorrow so much! Back there it is so difficult and so desperately important to find a reason for staying alive. How else should a person go on living? Sheer misery makes one profound."

"My body rises with the water. Instead of kicking my feet to stay abreast of it, I push all the air from my lungs and sink to the bottom. The water muffles my ears. I feel its movement over my face. I think about snorting the water into my lungs so it kills me faster, but I can't bring myself to do it. I blow bubbles from my mouth. Relax. I close my eyes. My lungs burn."
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"Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!"

"Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship."

"The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight."

"No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority."

"The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality."

"The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them."
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