A sense of security, a feeling that a truce was established between the present hour and the irresistible, disastrous future, imparted to me a kind o… - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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A sense of security, a feeling that a truce was established between the present hour and the irresistible, disastrous future, imparted to me a kind of calm forgetfulness, of which the human mind is by its structure peculiarly susceptible.