“I do know that for the sympathy of one living being, I would make peace with all. I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.”

—  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley , Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus

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