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Frankenstein

by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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“The basis of optimism is sheer terror.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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“I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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“The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.”
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“Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”
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“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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