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“Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”
― Frankenstein
― Frankenstein
“Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.”
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“Rather than words comes the thought of high windows:
The sun-comprehending glass,
And beyond it, the deep blue air, that shows
Nothing, and is nowhere, and is endless.”
― High Windows
The sun-comprehending glass,
And beyond it, the deep blue air, that shows
Nothing, and is nowhere, and is endless.”
― High Windows
“It's no secret, of course, that souls sometimes die within a person and are replaced by others — especially with age.”
― There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby: Scary Fairy Tales
― There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby: Scary Fairy Tales
“Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day.”
― The Second Sex
― The Second Sex
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