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Sorrow only increased with knowledge.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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The time at length arrives, when grief is rather an indulgence than a necessity and the smile that plays upon the lips, although it may be deemed a sacrilege, is not banished.
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The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation I am alone.
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None but those who have experienced them can conceive of the enticements of science.
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Tranquility, allied to loneliness, possessed no charms.
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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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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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Polluted by crimes, and torn by the bitterest remorse, where can I find rest but in death?
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She was no longer that happy creature who in earlier youth wandered with me on the banks of the lake and talked with ecstasy of our future prospects. The first of those sorrows which are sent to wean us from the earth had visited her, and its dimming influence quenched her dearest smiles.
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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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A lofty sense of independence is, in man, the best privilege of his nature.
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If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!
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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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From my infancy I was imbued with high hopes and a lofty ambition.
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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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Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change. The sun might shine, or the clouds might lour: but nothing could appear to me as it had done the day before.
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Teach him to think for himself? Oh, my God, teach him rather to think like other people!
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You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings.
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