"Anguish and despair had penetrated into the core of my heart; I bore a hell within me, which nothing could extinguish."

"We never do what we wish when we wish it, and when we desire a thing earnestly, and it does arrive, that or we are changed, so that we slide from the summit of our wishes and find ourselves where we w…"

"Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change."

"When I reflected on the work I had completed, no less than on the failure of my hopes, I was filled with a bitter anguish."

"My imagination is dead, my genius lost, my energies sleep."