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All Quotes by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- I saw and heard of none like me. Was I then a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men fled, and whom…
- My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.
- At the age of twenty six I am in the condition of an aged person — all my old friends are gone... & my heart…
- There is something at work in my soul which I do not understand. I am practically industrious - painstaking, a workman to execute with perseverance…
- All judges had rather that ten innocent should suffer than that one guilty should escape.
- When I step into the batter's box, the fans, the noise, the cheers, they all disappear. For that moment, the world is just a battle…
- Allow me now to return to the cottagers, whose story excited in me such various feelings of indignation, delight, and wonder, but which all terminated…
- There is something so different in Venice from any other place in the world, that you leave at once all accustomed habits and everyday sights…
- All men hate the wretched; how, then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things! Yet you, my creator, detest and spurn…
- The whole series of my life appeared to me as a dream; I sometimes doubted if indeed it were all true, for it never presented…
- Her countenance was all expression; her eyes were not dark but impenetrably deep; you seemed to discover space after space in their intellectual glance.
- A truce to philosophy!—Life is before me, and I rush into possession. Hope, glory, love, and blameless ambition are my guides, and my soul knows…
- Oh! Stars and clouds and winds, ye are all about to mock me; if ye really pity me, crush sensation and memory; let me become…
- I do know that for the sympathy of one living being, I would make peace with all. I have love in me the likes of…
- These wonderful narrations inspired me with strange feelings. Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous, and magnificent, yet so vicious and base? He…
- I expected this reception. All men hate the wretched; how, then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things! Yet you, my…
- It is true, we shall be monsters, cut off from all the world; but on that account we shall be more attached to one another.
- I could not understand why men who knew all about good and evil could hate and kill each other.
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