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Our faults are apt to assume giant and exaggerated forms to our eyes in youth.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?
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Supremely frightful would be the effect of any human endeavor to mock the stupendous mechanism of the Creator of the world.
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Even the eternal skies weep, I thought is there any shame then, that mortal man should spend himself in tears?
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I beheld the wretch-the miserable monster whom I had created.
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I was benevolent and good misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous.
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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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