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Poetry, and the principle of Self, of which money is the visible incarnation, are the God and the Mammon of the world.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.
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 me, thy creature, to whom thou are bound by ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us.
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These wonderful narrations inspired me with strange feelings. Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous, and magnificent, yet so vicious and base? He appeared at one time a mere scion of the evil principle and at another as all that can be conceived of noble and godlike.
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Tranquility, allied to loneliness, possessed no charms.
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Polluted by crimes, and torn by the bitterest remorse, where can I find rest but in death?
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.
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The time at length arrives, when grief is rather an indulgence than a necessity and the smile that plays upon the lips, although it may be deemed a sacrilege, is not banished.
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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 no dread. What has been, though sweet, is gone the present is good only because it is about to change, and the to come is all my own.
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We could almost believe that we are destined by Providence to an unsettled position on the globe, so invariably is a love of change implanted in the young. It seems as if the eternal Lawgiver intended that, at a certain age, man should leave father, mother, and the dwelling of his infancy, to seek his fortunes over the wide world.
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Unhappy man! Do you share my maddness? Have you drunk also of the intoxicating draught? Hear me let me reveal my tale, and you will dash the cup from your lips!
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
My person was hideous and my stature gigantic. What did this mean? Who was I? What was I? Whence did I come? What was my destination? These questions continually recurred, but I was unable to solve them.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Teach him to think for himself? Oh, my God, teach him rather to think like other people!
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
I could not understand why men who knew all about good and evil could hate and kill each other.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The world was to me a secret which I desired to devine.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change. The sun might shine, or the clouds might lour: but nothing could appear to me as it had done the day before.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Our faults are apt to assume giant and exaggerated forms to our eyes in youth.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Beware for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of life even in the excess of misery!
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
...once I falsely hoped to meet the beings who, pardoning my outward form, would love me for the excellent qualities which I was capable of unfolding.
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You are my creator, but I am your master Obey!
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
