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"Teach him to think for himself? Oh, my God, teach him rather to think like other people!"
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Virtue
"What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the spectre which had haunted my midnight pillow."
Fear
"Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of voice, but out of chaos."
Chaos
"But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be - a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself."
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"The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food."
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"Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world."
Death
"My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings."
Dream
"My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free."
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"I gave in, and admitted that God was God."
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