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| 1 | 12 | Could I be so weak and View more quotes about terrible">terrible? Could I be truly so different from others? Surely there could be no one in the world so degraded, so shameful and terrible as myself. |
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| 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. |
| 1 | 11 | I squirmed and thrashed in my bed, twisting and weeping, pounding it with my fists, crying out, "No! No!" Then I would put my head fearfully on my pillow, dampened with meaningless, rebellious tears. |
| 1 | 12 | Could I be so weak and terrible? Could I be truly so different from others? Surely there could be no one in the world so degraded, so shameful and terrible as myself. |
| 1 | 13 | Then one night I rose from bed and went to the vanity and lit the small candle there. |
| 1 | 14 | I had bought this candle weeks before, probably because deep within me, within my deepest self, in my anguished mind, in my tortured breast and heart, I knew this night would come. |
| 1 | 15 | I lit the small candle. |