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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"Nothing is more painful to the human mind than after the feelings have been worked up by a quick succession of events, the dead calmness of inaction and certainty which follows and deprives the soul b…"
"Anguish and despair had penetrated into the core of my heart; I bore a hell within me, which nothing could extinguish."
"I am a creature of fine sensations, but I am also a creature of terrible imperfections."
"Blasted as I was, I could not bear to look on the face of man."
"The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even the enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation; I am alone."
The Last Man, a somewhat pessimistic but profound observation on human nature and the inevitability of disappointment.
Date: 1826
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