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"I have at length been ill, very ill, once more, and for many / reasons foreign to the weightiest, which I had forgotten, I had / hoped that I was going to die. But therein I am as usual deceived / and disappointed. That I have been out of my mind I know, by having / returned to the real knowledge of what I am. The conscious present / has again fallen together and made a whole with the past, and that / whole is my personal identity.
"How I broke loose from the bonds of a madness, which, after so / many and heavy years of uninterrupted sanity, had at length laid / hold upon me, I will now relate.