My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings.
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Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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.
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I beheld the wretchthe miserable monster whom I had created.
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The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful in society, had that society been well organized.
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Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of voice, but out of chaos.
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I am very averse to bringing myself forward in print, but as my account will only appear as an appendage to a former production, and as it will be confined to such topics as have connection with my authorship alone, I can hardly accuse myself of a personal intrusion.
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