A Secret History

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This history will undoubtedly be found interesting by those who take an interest in such things.

And again, when in the long course of time the story seems to belong to a rather distant past, I am afraid that I shall be regarded as a mere teller of fairy tales or listed among the tragic poets.
~Procopius, circa AD 500

Si qui forte mearum ineptiarum
lectores eritis manusque vestras
non horrebitis admovere nobis.
~Catullus, Carmen 14b

And in the sphere of thought, no less than in the sphere of time, motion is no more. The thing that you personally have long ago forgotten, or can easily forget, is happening to me now, and will happen to me again to-morrow. Remember this, and you will be able to understand a little of why I am writing, and in this manner writing.
~O. Wilde, De Profundis

We are as forlorn as children lost in the wood. When you stand in front of me and look at me, what do you know of the grief that is in me and what do I know of yours? And if I were to cast myself down before you and tell you, what more would you know about me than you know about Hell when someone tells you it is hot and dreadful?
~F. Kafka

Ennui! That monster frail!—With eye wherein
A chance tear gleams, he dreams of gibbets, while
Smoking his hookah, with a dainty smile. . .
—You know him, reader,—hypocrite,—my twin!
~C. Baudelaire

"The horror of that moment," the King went on, "I shall never never forget!"
"You will, though," the Queen said, "if you don't make a memorandum of it."
~L. Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There

The present writer is nothing of a philosopher; he is, poetice et eleganter, an amateur writer who neither writes the System nor promises of the System, who neither subscribes to the System nor ascribes anything to it.
~S. Kierkegaard, trans. Lowrie

And is it True? It is not True.
And if it were it wouldn't do,
For people such as me and you
Who pretty nearly all day long
Are doing something rather wrong.
Because if things were really so
You would have perished long ago,
And I would not have lived to write
The noble lines that meet your sight.
~H. Belloc, Cautionary Tales for Children

Pray thee, take care, that tak'st my book in hand,
To read it well: that is, to understand.
~Ben Jonson, Epigrams I: To the Reader

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