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1 " Know, then," said he, "that I myself am the destiny—the demon, as thou sayest, by whom I am persecuted and destroyed, that my conscience is loaded with guilt, nay, with the stain of a shameful, infamous, and mortal crime, "
― E.T.A. Hoffmann , The Devil's Elixir Vol. I (of 2)
2 " So true it is, that even the shortest step out of the immediate circle of one's best friends, is equal, in effect, to the remotest separation. "