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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But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be - a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself.Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Teach him to think for himself? Oh, my God, teach him rather to think like other people!
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I beheld the wretchthe miserable monster whom I had created.
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My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings.
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