"At the age of twenty six I am in the condition of an aged person - all my old friends are gone... & my heart fails when I think by how few ties I hold to the world."
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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley quotes (page 7 of 10)
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"The whole series of my life appeared to me as a dream; I sometimes doubted if indeed it were all true, for it never presented itself to my mind with the force of reality."
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"Solitude becomes a sort of tangible enemy, the more dangerous, because it dwells within the citadel itself."
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"Evil thenceforth became my good."
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"Precious attribute of woe-worn humanity! that can snatch ecstatic emotion, even from under the very share and harrow, that ruthlessly ploughs up and lays waste every hope."
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"You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings."
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"From my birth I have aspired like the eagle - but unlike the eagle, my wings have failed. . . . Congratulate me then that I have found a fitting scope for my powers."
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"My spirit will sleep in peace; or if it thinks, it will not surely think thus. Farewell."
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"The guilty are allowed, by human laws, bloody as they are, to speak in their own defence before they are condemned."
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"He is dead who called me into being, and when I shall be no more the very remembrance of us both will speedily vanish."
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"I trembled, and my heart failed within me; when, on looking up, I saw, by the light of the moon, the daemon at the casement."
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"But he found that a traveller's life is one that includes much pain amidst its enjoyments. His feelings are for ever on the stretch; and when he begins to sink into repose, he finds himself obliged to quit that on which he rests in pleasure for something new, which again engages his attention, and which also he forsakes for other novelties."
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"Everything must have a beginning ... and that beginning must be linked to something that went before."
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"Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it."
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"If our impulses were confined to hunger, thirst, and desire, we might be nearly free; but now we are moved by every wind that blows and a chance word or scene that that word may convey to us."
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"But success shall crown my endeavours. Wherefore not? Thus far I have gone, tracking a secure way over the pathless seas: the very stars themselves being witnesses and testimonies of my triumph. Why not still proceed over the untamed yet obedient element? What can stop the determined heart and resolved will of man?"
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"What is there so fearful as the expectation of evil tidings delayed? ... Misery is a more welcome visitant when she comes in her darkest guise and wraps us in perpetual black, for then the heart no longer sickens with disappointed hope."
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"I, a miserable wretch, haunted by a curse that shut up every avenue to enjoyment."
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"The labours of men of genius, however erroneously directed, scarcely ever fail in ultimately turning to the solid advantage of mankind."
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"My own mind began to grow, watchful with anxoius thoughts."
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