I became bold, haughty, intrepid, with a confidence the more firm, as it was simple, and resided in my soul rather than in my manner.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The condition that I made—a most natural one—was that his Majesty should concede to me the sittings required, that I might model him from life and not from photograph.
— from Thoughts on Art and Autobiographical Memoirs of Giovanni Duprè by Giovanni Duprè

He was so right that it made me mad.
— from Highways in Hiding by George O. (George Oliver) Smith

“I know, Camille, that your affection for me is great and so rare that it makes me wish I had never met Beatrix,” he replied with simple good faith; “but I don’t see what you hope from all this.”
— from Beatrix by Honoré de Balzac

So Robert the Impatient, must make the best of it."
— from Six Girls and Bob: A Story of Patty-Pans and Green Fields by Marion Ames Taggart

As he spoke, I seemed to live a former life over again; for I had once before been present at an exactly similar preaching, in company, either bodily or spiritual, with my friend Mr. James Payn, and his comments on the scene revived themselves in my memory, even as the remote associations of Ellangowan reawoke in the consciousness of Harry Bertram when he returned from his wanderings, and gazed, bewildered, on his forgotten home.
— from Seeing and Hearing by George William Erskine Russell

It is so real that it makes me doubt the reality of everything else in the world, and it removes for an instant all sense of the jarring and inharmonious elements of life, the pitiful desires, the angers and coldnesses of fellow-mortals, the selfish claims of one's own timid heart and mind.
— from The Silent Isle by Arthur Christopher Benson