“It is well for the unfortunate to be resigned, but for the guilty there is no peace. The agonies of remorse poison the luxury there is otherwise sometimes found in indulging the excess of grief.”
Quote by Mary Shelley
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Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
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