Why do we need sentiments
“I have very ardent passions, and if they excite me, nothing can be compared with my fervor: then for me there is neither caution, nor respect, nor fear, nor decency; I become cynical, arrogant, frantic, unshakable; Shame does not stop me, the danger does not scare; In addition to the subject that fascinates me, the whole world is nothing for me. But all this lasts only a moment, and after that I fall into a numb.