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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
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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In my joy I thrust my hand into the live embers, but quickly drew it out with a cry of pain. How strange, I thought that the same cause should produce such opposite effects.
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But he found that a traveller's life is one that includes much pain amidst its enjoyments. His feelings are for ever on the stretch and when he begins to sink into repose, he finds himself obliged to quit that on which he rests in pleasure for something new, which again engages his attention, and which also he forsakes for other novelties.
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Man, I cried, how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom!
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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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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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I am malicious because I am miserable
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He is dead who called me into being, and when I shall be no more the very remembrance of us both will speedily vanish.
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I feel exquisite pleasure in dwelling on the recollections of childhood, before misfortune had tainted my mind, and changed its bright visions of extensive usefulness into gloomy and narrow reflections upon self.
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It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.
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Satan has his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him but I am solitary and detested.
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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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It is a strange feeling for a girl when first she finds the power put into her hand of influencing the destiny of another to happiness or misery. She is like a magician holding for the first time a fairy wand, not having yet had experience of its potency.
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And the violet lay dead while the odour flew On the wings of the wind o'er the waters blue.
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Ennui, the demon, waited at the threshold of his noiseless refuge, and drove away the stirring hopes and enlivening expectations, which form the better part of life.
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When falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness?
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Precious attribute of woe-worn humanity! that can snatch ecstatic emotion, even from under the very share and harrow, that ruthlessly ploughs up and lays waste every hope.
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Tranquility, allied to loneliness, possessed no charms.
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If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!
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A solitary being is by instinct a wanderer.
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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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