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"For some reason I believe that if I write it down I should get rid of it somehow."

"They say work makes man kind-hearted and honest. Well, here is a chance for me, anyway."

Write and write and write!

"Now we do think bloodshed abominable and yet we engage in this abomination, and with more energy than ever. Which is worse? Decide that for yourselves."

"The more conscious I was of goodness and of all that was 'sublime and beautiful,' the more deeply I sank into my mire and the more ready I was to sink in it altogether."

"Perhaps I consider myself an intelligent man, only because all my life I have been able neither to begin nor to finish anything."

Okay self-aware king!