“I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel...”
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Card 7
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“There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.”
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Card 8
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“the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain.”
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Card 9
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“Satan has his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and detested.”
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Card 10
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“The world to me was a secret, which I desired to discover; to her it was a vacancy, which she sought to people with imaginations of her own.”
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Card 11
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“There is love in me the likes of which you've never seen. There is rage in me the likes of which should never escape. If I am not satisfied int he one, I will indulge the other.”
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Card 12
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“When falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness?”
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Card 13
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“How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of life even in the excess of misery!”
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Card 14
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“The whole series of my life appeared to me as a dream; I sometimes doubted if indeed it were all true, for it never presented itself to my mind with the force of reality.”
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Card 15
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“It may...be judged indecent in me to come forward on this occasion; but when I see a fellow-creature about to perish through the cowardice of her pretended friends, I wish to be allowed to speak, that I may say what I know of her character.”
