What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it. The Immoralist
There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day. Unpublished fragment
There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast. Oliver Twist
Pleasure, like a kind of bait, is thrown before everything which is really bad, and easily allures greedy souls to the hook of perdition. Fragment
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