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“Dreams that had been my food and pleasant rest for so long a space were now become a hell to me; and the change was so rapid, the overthrow so complete!”

“If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections, and to destroy your taste for those simple pleasures in which no alloy can possibly mix, then that study is certainly unlawful, that is to say, not befitting the human mind.”

“I was required to exchange chimeras of boundless grandeur for realities of little worth.”

I love this quote, it puts into words what I oftentimes feel.
It also reminds me of The Logical Song by Supertramp:

“When I was young, it seemed that life was so wonderful
[…]
But then they sent me away to teach me how to be sensible”

“It seemed to me as if nothing would or could ever be known.”