"Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos."
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"I am alone and miserable. Only someone as ugly as I am could love me."
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"It is true, we shall be monsters, cut off from all the world; but on that account we shall be more attached to one another."
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"Devil, do you dare approach me? and do you not fear the fierce vengeance of my arm wreaked on your miserable head?"
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"...if I see but one smile on your lips when we meet, occasioned by this or any other exertion of mine, I shall need no other happiness."
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"Even broken in spirit as he is, no one can feel more deeply than he does the beauties of nature. The starry sky, the sea, and every sight afforded by these wonderful regions, seems still to have the power of elevating his soul from earth. Such a man has a double existence: he may suffer misery, and be overwhelmed by disappointments; yet, when he has retired into himself, he will be like a celestial spirit that has a halo around him, within whose circle no grief or folly ventures."
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"I also became a poet, and for one year lived in a Paradise of my own creation; I imagined that I also might obtain a niche in the temple where the names of Homer and Shakespeare are consecrated."
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"Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowledge of human weakness, justly termed cunning, softness of temper, outward obedience and a scrupulous attention to a puerile kind of propriety, will obtain for them the protection of man."
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"I see by your eagerness, and the wonder and hope which your eyes express, my friend, that you expect to be in formed of the secret with which I am acquainted. That cannot be."
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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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"The world to me was a secret, which I desired to discover; to her it was a vacancy, which she sought to people with imaginations of her own."
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"Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition even if it be only the apparently innocent one of distinguishing yourself in science and discoveries."
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"How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of life even in the excess of misery!"
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"When I step into the batter's box, the fans, the noise, the cheers, they all disappear. For that moment, the world is just a battle between me and the pitcher. And more than anything, I want to win."
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"I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel."
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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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"...learn from my miseries, and do not seek to increase your own."
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"Thus strangely are our souls constructed, and by slight ligaments are we bound to prosperity and ruin."
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"It would be an endless task to trace the variety of meannesses, cares, and sorrows into which women are plunged by the prevailing opinion that they were created rather to feel than reason."
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"Curiosity, earnest research to learn the hidden laws of nature, gladness akin to rapture, as they unfolded to me, are among the earliest sensations I can remember."
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