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Only Quotes by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- 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…
- What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the spectre which had haunted my midnight pillow.
- 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…
- 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…
- Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude.
- Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.
- Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition even if it be only the apparently innocent one of distinguishing yourself in science and discoveries.
- Why did I not die? More miserable than man ever was before, why did I not sink into forgetfulness and rest? Death snatches away many…
- 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…
- Heavy misfortunes have befallen us, but let us only cling closer to what remains, and transfer our love for those whom we have lost to…
- I am alone and miserable. Only someone as ugly as I am could love me.
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- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
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