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Own Quotes by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.
- Men become cannibals of their own hearts; remorse, regret, and restless impatience usurp the place of more wholesome feeling: every thing seems better than that…
- The guilty are allowed, by human laws, bloody as they are, to speak in their own defence before they are condemned.
- ...learn from my miseries, and do not seek to increase your own.
- The world to me was a secret, which I desired to discover; to her it was a vacancy, which she sought to people with imaginations…
- I also became a poet, and for one year lived in a Paradise of my own creation; I imagined that I also might obtain a…
- 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…
- 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…
- My own mind began to grow, watchful with anxoius thoughts.
- Listen to me, Frankenstein. You accuse me of murder; and yet you would, with a satisfied conscience, destroy your own creature. Oh, praise the eternal…
- 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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