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I was benevolent and good misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn and whether it was the outward substance of things or the inner spirit of nature and the mysterious soul of man that occupied me, still my inquiries were directed to the metaphysical, or in its highest sense, the physical secrets of the world.
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Beware for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.
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He was soon borne away by the waves and lost in darkness and distance.
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