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“…there is still something in everything I do that defeats me, makes me dissatisfied, challenges me to further effort. Sometimes I rise above my level, sometimes I fall below it; but always I fall short of the things I dream.”

“But I can see through it all, see into their very souls, and see there nothing but the souls of beasts… there is a kind of upward striving in them… It only mocks me.”