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A caged lover’s feelings may easily be imagined.
“What is darkness to you is light to me.
Where did truth stop? Where did error begin?
Our principle is, that books, instead of growing moldy behind an iron grating, should be worn out under the eyes of many readers. Therefore, these volumes are passed from one to another, read over and over, referred to again and again; and it often happens that they find their way back to their shelves only after an absence of a year or two.”
“Et quacumque viam dedent fortuna sequamur.” “Therever fortune clears a way, Thither our ready footsteps stray.”
“There stands the giant that I shall conquer.”
My imagination fell powerless before such immensity.
Words failed me to express my feelings.
“Science, my lad, has been built upon many errors; but they are errors that it was good to fall into, for they led to the truth.”
I am the only living thing in the world: all life is concentrated in my beating heart alone.
Our mouths open, our lips move, but not a word can be heard.
But I had the courage to preserve silence.
If at every instant we may perish, so at every instant we may be saved. Let us then be prepared to seize upon the smallest advantage.”
“Yes, I do; as long as the heart beats, as long as body and soul keep together, I cannot admit that any creature endowed with a will has need to despair of life.”
they cannot be understood without being felt.
But I was the victim, not the master, of my own thoughts.
I am indifferent to their incredulity, and they may believe as much or as little as they please.
