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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Quotes

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley quotes

English Author August 30, 1797 – February 1, 1851

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A king is always a king - and a woman always a woman: his authority and her sex ever stand between them and rational converse. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
I spread the whole earth out as a map before me. On no one spot of its surface could I put my finger and say, here is safety? Mary Shelly, "The Last Man Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley quote: "The name of Italy has magic in its very syllables."
The name of Italy has magic in its very syllables. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley quote: "It is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not..."
It is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of it's own reason. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley quote: "Elegance is inferior to virtue."
Elegance is inferior to virtue. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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 niche in the temple where the names of Homer and Shakespeare are consecrated. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley quote: "He is dead who called me into being, and when I shall be no..."
He is dead who called me into being, and when I shall be no more the very remembrance of us both will speedily vanish. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Strange and harrowing must be his story; frightful the storm which embraced the gallant vessel on its course, and wrecked it--thus! Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley quote: "Who could be interested in the fate of a murderer, but the..."
Who could be interested in the fate of a murderer, but the hangman who would gain his fee? Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley quote: "I was new to sorrow, but it did not the less alarm me."
I was new to sorrow, but it did not the less alarm me. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley quote: "The world was to me a secret which I desired to devine."
The world was to me a secret which I desired to devine. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
I am about to proceed on a long and difficult voyage, the emergencies of which will demand all my fortitude: I am required not only to raise the spirits of others, but sometimes to sustain my own, when theirs are failing. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
I was seized by remorse and the sense of guilt, which hurried me away to a hell of intense tortures as no language can describe Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
I felt that blank incapability of invention which is the greatest misery of authorship, when dull Nothing replies to our anxious invocations. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley quote: "I beheld the wretch-the miserable monster whom I had created."
I beheld the wretch-the miserable monster whom I had created. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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