My Education Was Neglected, Yet

It Is With Considerable Difficulty That I Remember The Original Era Of My Being

When Falsehood Can Look So Like The Truth, Who Can Assure Themselves Of Certain Happiness?

I Saw -- With Shut Eyes, But Acute Mental Vision -- I Saw The Pale Student Of Unhallowed Arts Kneeling Beside The Thing He Had Put Together. I Saw The Hideous Phantasm Of A Man Stretched Out, And Then, On The Working Of Some Powerful Engine, Show Signs Of Life, And Stir With An Uneasy, Half-vital Motion.

We Never Do What We Wish When We Wish It, And When We Desire A Thing Earnestly, And It Does Arrive, That Or We Are Changed, So That We Slide From The Summit Of Our Wishes And Find Ourselves Where We Were.

To Examine The Causes Of Life, We Must First Have Recourse To Death.