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"(...); for it is this whih they do not consider. They triumph in the power of being able to destroy the body, almost without making it suffer. Whan an inferior consideration is this! What is the mere physical pain compared to that of the mind? A day will come, and perhaps these memoirs, the last revelations of a solitary wretch, will have contributed —".

Have they ever paused on the important idea, that in the man whose days they shorten there is an immortal spirit which had calculated on life, a soul which is not preparared for death?

"Can I have anything to say, I who have no more to do in this world; and what shall I find in this dry and empty brain which is worthy the trouble of being written?

Why not? if all around me is monotonous and hueless, is there not withing me a tempest, a struggle, a tragedy?"

"Can I have anything to say, I who have no more to do in this world; and what shall I find in this dry and empty brain which is worthy the trouble of being written?"

l’édition est hideuse mais j’en voulais une sans préface/dossier # voilà

This looks promising