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All at once you feel yourself clutched; all is over.
The wheels hold you fast, the glance has ensnared you.
It has caught you, no matter where or how, by some portion of your thought which was fluttering loose, by some distraction which had attacked you.
You are lost.
The whole of you passes into it.
A chain of mysterious forces takes possession of you.
You struggle in vain; no more human succor is possible. You go on falling from gearing to gearing, from agony to agony, from torture to torture, you, your mind, your fortune, your future, your soul; and, according to whether you are in the power of a wicked creature, or of a noble heart, you will not escape from this terrifying machine otherwise than disfigured with shame, or transfigured by passion.
BOOK SIXTH.--THE CONJUNCTION OF TWO STARS
CHAPTER VII
ADVENTURES OF THE LETTER U DELIVERED OVER TO CONJECTURES
Isolation, detachment, from everything, pride, independence, the taste of nature, the absence of daily and material activity, the life within himself, the secret conflicts of chastity, a benevolent ecstasy towards all creation, had prepared Marius for this possession which is called passion.
His worship of his father had gradually become a religion, and, lik