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| 1 | 7 | But such a View more quotes about nature">nature, I wept, could not be, and if it were, so subtle, so insistent, so persistent, so unrelenting, so tenacious, it must never be admitted, never, never! Yes, I fought them, these secrets, these covert knowledges, these anticipations, these dreams. |
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| 1 | 4 | I do not know from whence the secrets arose. |
| 1 | 5 | They were directly contrary to everything that had been taught to me. |
| 1 | 6 | Their origins, it seemed, were deep within me, and, I feared, as I lay awake at night afraid, sweating and distraught, native to my very nature. |
| 1 | 7 | But such a nature, I wept, could not be, and if it were, so subtle, so insistent, so persistent, so unrelenting, so tenacious, it must never be admitted, never, never! Yes, I fought them, these secrets, these covert knowledges, these anticipations, these dreams. |
| 1 | 8 | Yes I struggled, in accord with the demands of my culture, my training and education, these things telling me how I must be, how I must be as I was told to be, to drive them from me. |
| 1 | 9 | I repudiated them, again and again, but to no avail. |
| 1 | 10 | They returned, ever again, mercilessly, horrifying me, taunting and mocking me, stripping me in the darkness of my bed of my pretenses and lies. |