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Letter "M" » Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Quotes
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«My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings.»
Author: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
(Novelist)
«But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be--a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself.»
Author: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
(Novelist)
«It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open . . .»
Author: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
(Novelist)
«I thought and pondered - vainly. I felt that blank incapability of invention which is the greatest misery of authorship, when dull Nothing replies to our anxious invocations.»
Author: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
(Novelist)
«The scene of my existence is closed & though there be no pleasure in retracing the scenes that have preceded the event which has crushed my hopes yet there seems to be a necessity in doing so, and I obey the impulse that urges me.»
Author: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
(Novelist)
«Elegance is inferior to virtue.»
Author: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
(Novelist)
«I am very averse to bringing myself forward in print, but as my account will only appear as an appendage to a former production, and as it will be confined to such topics as have connection with my authorship alone, I can hardly accuse myself of a personal intrusion.»
Author: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
(Novelist)
«A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind.»
Author: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
(Novelist)
«I shall live to improve myself, to take care of my child and to render myself worthy to join him. Soon my weary pilgrimage will begin.»
Author: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
(Novelist)
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