But now misery has come home, and men appear to me as monsters thirsting for each other's blood. - Mary Wollstonecraft

But soon, I shall die, and what I now feel be no longer felt. Soon these burning miseries will be extinct.

Everything must have a beginning, to speak in Sanchean phrase; and that beginning must be linked to something that went before. The Hindus give the world an elephant to support it, but they make the elephant stand upon a tortoise.

once I falsely hoped to meet the beings who, pardoning my outward form, would love me for the excellent qualities which I was capable of unfolding.