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From 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…
- From my birth I have aspired like the eagle - but unlike the eagle, my wings have failed. . . . Congratulate me then that…
- 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…
- The day of my departure at length arrived. Clerval spent the last evening with us. He had endeavoured to persuade his father to permit him…
- Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowledge of human weakness, justly termed cunning, softness…
- Every where I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded.
- The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food.
- ...learn from my miseries, and do not seek to increase your own.
- She was no longer that happy creature who in earlier youth wandered with me on the banks of the lake and talked with ecstasy of…
- We never do what we wish when we wish it, and when we desire a thing earnestly, and it does arrive, that or we are…
- Even broken in spirit as he is, no one can feel more deeply than he does the beauties of nature. The starry sky, the sea,…
- Unhappy man! Do you share my maddness? Have you drunk also of the intoxicating draught? Hear me; let me reveal my tale, and you will…
- Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?
- Hateful day when I received life!' I exclaimed in agony. 'Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from…
- For a moment my soul was elevated from its debasing and miserable fears to which these sights were the monuments and the remembrances. For an…
- 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.
- It is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of it's own reason.
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