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 were.
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"I could not understand why men who knew all about good and evil could hate and kill each other."
"One man's life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of the knowledge which I sought, for the dominion I should acquire and transmit over the elemental foes of our race."
"What is there in our nature that is forever urging us on towards pain and misery?"
"I knew the labyrinthine intrigue of his marriage was of a nature to present us with difficulties, but I was assured of the naturalness of our joining. I was sixteen and the world was suddenly entirely…"
"I, the miserable and the abandoned, am an abortion, to be spurned at, and kicked, and trampled on."
Likely from her personal writings or another novel, a profound observation on the ephemeral nature of desire and satisfaction.
Date: Early to mid-19th century (approximate)
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