"But soon, I shall die, and what I……" — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
"But soon, I shall die, and what I now feel be no longer felt. Soon these burning miseries will be extinct."
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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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150 Quotes by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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I saw and heard of none like me. Was I then a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which…
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My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my…
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It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn.
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You seek for knowledge and wisdom as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes…
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Everything must have a beginning ... and that beginning must be linked to something that went before.
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Teach him to think for himself? Oh, my God, teach him rather to think like other people!
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Ennui, the demon, waited at the threshold of his noiseless refuge, and drove away the stirring hopes and enlivening expectations,…
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I required kindness and sympathy, but I did not believe myself utterly unworthy of it.
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My candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye…
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The moon gazed on my midnight labours, while, with unrelaxed and breathless eagerness, I pursued nature to her hiding places.
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The instructor can scarcely give sensibility where it is essentially wanting, nor talent to the unpercipient block. But he can…
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At the age of twenty six I am in the condition of an aged person — all my old friends…
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