What is there in our nature that is for ever urging us on towards pain and misery? - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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What is there in our nature that is for ever urging us on towards pain and misery?

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About Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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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I beheld the wretch-the miserable monster whom I had created.

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