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“Life is obstinate, and clings closest where it is most hated.”

“The cup of life was poisoned for ever; and although the sun shone upon me, as upon the happy and gay of heart, I saw around me nothing but a dense and frightful darkness, penetrated by no light but the glimmer of two eyes that glared upon me.”

“How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of life even in the excess of misery!”

“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 wretched humanity, pitiable to others, and intolerable to myself.”

“Many times I considered Satan as the fitter emblem of my condition; for often, like him, when I viewed the bliss of my protectors, the bitter gall of envy rose within me.”

“Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to the mind, when it has once seized on it, like a lichen on the rock.”

“If such lovely creatures were miserable, it was less strange that I, an imperfect and solitary being, should be wretched.”

“Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.”

“All men hate the wretched; how, then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all things.”

“If our impulses were confined to hunger, thirst, and desire, we might nearly be free; but now we are moved by every wind that blows and a chance word or scene that that word may convey to us.”