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'And so, as a warmer and more loving friendship grew between us, I saw more clearly the uselessness of all attempts to bring happiness to a mind from which only darkness came, spreading upon all objects in the world its
never-ending gloom.'

“I have no fear of pain, but only the fear of its result — of terror. I feel
that the time will soon arrive when I must lose my life, and my mind,
and my soul, together, in some last battle with that horrible enemy:
fear!”