What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the spectre which had haunted my midnight pillow.
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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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The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food.
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A king is always a king - and a woman always a woman: his authority and her sex ever stand between them and rational converse.
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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.
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Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
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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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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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And now, once again, I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. I have an affection for it, for it was the offspring of happy days, when death and grief were but words, which found no true echo in my heart.
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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.
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