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Percy Bysshe Shelley

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One of the major English Romantic poets.. one of the major English Romantic poets


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Quote Left If the use of animal food be, in consequence, subversive to the peace of human society, how unwarrantable is the injustice and the barbarity which is exercised toward these miserable victims. They are called into existence by human artifice that they may drag out a short and miserable existence of slavery and disease, that their bodies may be mutilated, their social feelings outraged. It were much better that a sentient being should never have existed, than that it should have existed only to endure unmitigated misery. Quote Right
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Quote Left He hath awakened from the dream of life— Quote Right
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Quote Left And whether life had been before that sleep The Heaven which I imagine, or a Hell... Quote Right
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Quote Left Death is the veil which those who live call life: They sleep—and it is lifted Quote Right
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Quote Left Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollutes whate'er it touches. Quote Right
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Book: Shattered Sighs