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Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

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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.

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Duino Elegies: The First Elegy by Rainer Maria Rilke (tr. A. Poulin, Jr.)

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Many stars waited for you to see them.

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A Name by Ada Limón, from The Carrying

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When Eve walked among the animals and named them— nightingale, red-shouldered hawk, fiddler crab, fallow deer— I wonder if she ever wanted them to speak back, looked into their wide wonderful eyes and whispered, Name me, name me.

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Medea by Euripides (tr. Gilbert Murray)

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I am a living curse.

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Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

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how strange is that clinging love we have of life even in the excess of misery

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Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

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I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous.

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If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho translated by Anne Carson

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here to me from Krete to this holy temple where is your graceful grove of apple trees and altars smoking with frankincense.

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Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

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You accuse me of murder; and yet you would, with a satisfied conscience, destroy your own creature. Oh, praise the eternal justice of man!