While I destroyed his hopes, I did not satisfy my own desir… - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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While I destroyed his hopes, I did not satisfy my own desires. They were forever ardent and craving; still I desired love and fellowship, and I was still spurned. Was there no injustice in this? Am I to be thought the only criminal, when all humankind sinned against me?

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist. She was born Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin, and married Percy Bysshe Shelley.

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Am I to be thought the only criminal, when all humankind sinned against me?

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