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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Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.
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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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I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.
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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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Teach him to think for himself? Oh, my God, teach him rather to think like other people!
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The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.
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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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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.
