It were much better that a sentient being should never have existed, than that it should have existed only to endure unmitigated misery. (Percy Bysshe Shelley)

It were much better that a sentient being should never have existed, than that it should have existed only to endure unmitigated misery.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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