“ And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire—a fire, however, inseparable in its nature from myself, quickening nothing, lighting nothing, doing no service, idly burning away. ”
 Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities (1859). copy citation

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“A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it.»
«Will nothing of it remain? O Mr. Carton, think again! Try again!»
«No, Miss Manette; all through it, I have known myself to be quite undeserving. And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire—a fire, however, inseparable in its nature from myself, quickening nothing, lighting nothing, doing no service, idly burning away.»
«Since it is my misfortune, Mr. Carton, to have made you more unhappy than you were before you knew me—» «Don't say that, Miss Manette, for you would have reclaimed me, if anything could. You will not be the cause of my becoming worse.»” source

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