“Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.”

“I no longer see the world and its works as they before appeared to me.”

“The world was to me a secret which I desired to devine.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I do not ever remember to have trembled at a tale of superstition or to have feared the apparition of a spirit. Darkness had no effect upon my fancy, and a churchyard was to me merely the receptacle of bodies deprived of life, which, from being the seat of beauty and strength, had become food for the worm.”

“Thus strangely are our souls constructed, and by slight ligaments are we bound to prosperity and ruin.”