"It is like an emotional wave striking me again and again.  I feel compelled to obey a sort of phenomenon.  These sensations are outside the spectrum of what I ever have experienced outside a seizure."

"For several moments, I would experience such joy as would be inconceivable in ordinary life -- such joy that no one else could have any notion of.  I would feel the most complete harmony in myself and in the whole world and this feeling was so strong and sweet that for a few seconds of such bliss I would give ten or more years of my life, even my whole life perhaps."

"As a result of his fits he would sometimes bruise himself in falling, and his muscles would hurt him from his convulsions ... But the most important thing was that he lost his memory and for two or three days he would feel utterly broken.  His mental condition was also grievous: he could scarcely overcome his anguish and hypersensitivity."