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“Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“...take me where I may forget myself, my existence, and all the world.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein

“What may not be expected in a country of eternal light”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus

“i'm a creature of fine sensations”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“We are fashioned creatures, but half made up.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“What is dark within me, illumine.”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

“This horror will grow mild, this darkness light.”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

“What reinforcement we may gain from hope,
If not what resolution from despair.”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

“Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss.”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

“Then wilt thou not be loath
To leave this Paradise, but shalt possess
A Paradise within thee, happier far.”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

“Freely we serve,
Because we freely love,as in our will
To love or not;in this we stand or fall.”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

“Farewell happy fields,
Where joy forever dwells: Hail, horrors, hail.”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

“Good luck with the world.”
― William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist

“Peace I leave you. My peace I give you.”
― William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist

“Have you ever sensed that our soul is immortal and never dies?”
― Plato, The Republic

“I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my eyes and all is born again.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“I know the bottom, she says. I know it with my great tap root:
It is what you fear.
I do not fear it: I have been there.

--from "Elm", written 19 April 1962”
― Sylvia Plath, Ariel

“Please — consider me a dream.”
― Franz Kafka