We are not formed for enjoyment; and, however we may be attuned to the reception of pleasurable emotion, disappointment is the never-failing pilot of our life's bark, and ruthlessly carries us on to the shoals.
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"The beginning is always today."
"How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of life even in the excess of misery!"
"Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos."
"How dreadful it is, to emerge from the oblivion of slumber, and to receive as a good morrow the mute wailing of one's own hapless heart - to return from the land of deceptive dreams to the heavy knowl…"
"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."
The Last Man, a somewhat pessimistic but profound observation on human nature and the inevitability of disappointment.
Date: 1826
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