These words had impressed Clement deeply, inscribed upon his heart.
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She thought, this is the end of happiness, darkness begins here.
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I wonder if it's harder to be good in this age?
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Lucas hated other people, and also hated himself.
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He is crammed full of rage and hate and desire for revenge.
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One might have all sorts of reasons for avoiding people. It's none of our business.
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I have always wanted to kill you, ever since the moment when I learnt of your existence.
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He suffers terribly all the time. He lives in fire.
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Was this strange mode of life to go on and on?
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I took him for a kind of buffoon. Now I see he is a devil.
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It was her birthday. She thought, I am always unhappy on this day.
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What greater torment than to see that light, and then to see it eternally withdrawn?
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She thought, perhaps I am simply mad. It will grow worse. That will be my life.
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Sentimentally and in the soul it went on for ages, it still goes on, it goes on and on.
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Don't tease me. Everything wounds me now except perfect kindness.
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