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The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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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. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the spectre which had haunted my midnight pillow. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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Love is free; to promise for ever to love the same woman is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed; such a vow in both cases excludes us from all inquiry. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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