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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Quotes

I shall commit my thoughts to paper, it is true; but that is a poor medium for the communication of feeling. I desire the company of a man who could sympathize with me, whose eyes would reply to mine.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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