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Suppose that what I write might one day be useful to others, -- might make the Judge pause in his decision, and might save the wretched (innocent or guilty) from the agony to which I am condemned, -- why should _I_ do it? What matters it? When my life has been taken, what will it be to me if they take the lives of others? Have I really thought of such folly? -- to throw down the scaffold which I had fatally mounted!
What! sunshine, spring, fields full of flowers and birds, the clouds, trees, nature, liberty, life, -- these are to be mine no more!