Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes

To be omnipotent but friendless is to reign.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Here I swear, and as I break my oath may eternity blast me, here I swear that never will I forgive Christianity! It is the only point on which I allow myself to encourage revenge. Oh, how I wish I were the Antichrist, that it were mine to crush the Demon; to hurl him to his native Hell never to rise again / I expect to gratify some of this insatiable feeling in Poetry. - Percy Bysshe Shelley