Identity Quotes List
‘I am by birth a Genevese’
‘I was a poor, helpless, miserable wretch…I sat down and wept’ (pg.105)
‘I entered…the children shrieked, and one of the women fainted…some fled, some attacked me, until
grievously bruised by stones and other kinds of missile weapons…I escaped to the open country’
(pg.108-109)
‘barbarity of man’ (pg.109)
‘I crept from my kennel’ (pg.109)
‘As I read however I applied much personally to my own feelings and condition. I found myself
similar, yet at the same time strangely unlike to the beings concerning whom I read’ (pg.131)
‘I was uninformed in mind’ (pg.131)
‘I was dependant on none and related to none’ (pg.131)
‘my person was hideous and my stature gigantic’ (pg.131)
‘What did this mean? Who was I? What was I? Whence did I come? What was my destination? These
questions continuously recurred but I was unable solve them’ (pg.131)
‘he elevated me above the wretched sphere of my own reflections’ (pg.131)
‘many things I read surpassed my understanding and experience’ (pg.131)
‘I am by birth a Genevese’
‘I was a poor, helpless, miserable wretch…I sat down and wept’ (pg.105)
‘I entered…the children shrieked, and one of the women fainted…some fled, some attacked me, until
grievously bruised by stones and other kinds of missile weapons…I escaped to the open country’
(pg.108-109)
‘barbarity of man’ (pg.109)
‘I crept from my kennel’ (pg.109)
‘As I read however I applied much personally to my own feelings and condition. I found myself
similar, yet at the same time strangely unlike to the beings concerning whom I read’ (pg.131)
‘I was uninformed in mind’ (pg.131)
‘I was dependant on none and related to none’ (pg.131)
‘my person was hideous and my stature gigantic’ (pg.131)
‘What did this mean? Who was I? What was I? Whence did I come? What was my destination? These
questions continuously recurred but I was unable solve them’ (pg.131)
‘he elevated me above the wretched sphere of my own reflections’ (pg.131)
‘many things I read surpassed my understanding and experience’ (pg.131)
