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Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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Oh! Stars and clouds and winds, ye are all about to mock me if ye really pity me, crush sensation and memory let me become as nought but if not, depart, depart, and leave me in darkness.
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All judges had rather that ten innocent should suffer than that one guilty should escape.
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If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!
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