The world to me was a secret, which I desired to discover; to her it was a vacancy, which she sought to people with imaginations of her own. (Mary Shelley)

The world to me was a secret, which I desired to discover; to her it was a vacancy, which she sought to people with imaginations of her own.

Mary Shelley

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