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Teach him to think for himself? Oh, my God, teach him rather to think like other people!
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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Allow me now to return to the cottagers, whose story excited in me such various feelings of indignation, delight, and wonder, but which all terminated in additional love and reverence for my protectors (for so I loved, in an innocent, half painful self-deceit, to call them).
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Polluted by crimes, and torn by the bitterest remorse, where can I find rest but in death?
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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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These wonderful narrations inspired me with strange feelings. Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous, and magnificent, yet so vicious and base? He appeared at one time a mere scion of the evil principle and at another as all that can be conceived of noble and godlike.
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Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.
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. . . the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain.
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Poetry, and the principle of Self, of which money is the visible incarnation, are the God and the Mammon of the world.
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When I run over the frightful catalogue of my sins, I cannot believe that I am the same creature whose thoughts were once filled with sublime and transcendent visions of the beauty and the majesty of goodness. But it is even so the fallen angel becomes a malignant devil.
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The whole series of my life appeared to me as a dream I sometimes doubted if indeed it were all true, for it never presented itself to my mind with the force of reality.
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He was soon borne away by the waves and lost in darkness and distance.
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The air of fashion, which many young people are so eager to attain, always strikes me like the studied attitudes of some modern prints, copied with tasteless servility after the antigue the soul is left out, and none of the parts are tied together by what may properly be termed character.
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I do know that for the sympathy of one living being, I would make peace with all. I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.
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One man's life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of the knowledge which I sought
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Sorrow only increased with knowledge.
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My dreams were all my own I accounted for them to nobody they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.
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With how many things are we on the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our inquiries.
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The world was to me a secret which I desired to devine.
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Our faults are apt to assume giant and exaggerated forms to our eyes in youth.
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Beware for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.
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Unhappy man! Do you share my maddness? Have you drunk also of the intoxicating draught? Hear me let me reveal my tale, and you will dash the cup from your lips!
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