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i'm a creature of fine sensations — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

I wish to soothe him; yet can I counsel one so infinitely miserable, so destitute of every hope of consolation, to live? — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

And I call on you, spirits of the dead, and on you, wandering ministers of vengeance, to aid and conduct me in my work. Let — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

My internal being was in a state of insurrection and turmoil; I felt that order would thence arise, but I had no power to produce it. By — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

I am malicious because I am miserable — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Tranquility, allied to loneliness, possessed no charms. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Surely once in a life God will grant the earnest entreaty of a loving heart. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

A lofty sense of independence is, in man, the best privilege of his nature. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

A solitary being is by instinct a wanderer ... — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to the mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on the rock. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Truly disappointment is the guardian deity of human life; she sits at the threshold of unborn time, and marshals the events as they come forth. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Even the eternal skies weep, I thought; is there any shame then, that mortal man should spend himself in tears? — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

I am not well; I am tired with this comfortless estrangement from all that is dear to me. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

My father was not scientific, and I was left to struggle with a child's blindness, added to a student's thirst for knowledge. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

All men hate the wretched. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Sorrow only increased with knowledge. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

My candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Who was I? What was I? Whence did I come? — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Whence, I often asked myself, did the principle of life proceed? — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

His conversation was marked by its happy abundance. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

I have longed for a friend; I have sought one who would sympathize with and love me. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Marriage is usually considered the grave, and not the cradle of love. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Live, and be happy, and make others so. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear! — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The moon gazed on my midnight labours, while, with unrelaxed and breathless eagerness, I pursued nature to her hiding places. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Solitude becomes a sort of tangible enemy, the more dangerous, because it dwells within the citadel itself. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

I, the miserable and the abandoned, am an abortion, to be spurned at, and kicked, and trampled on — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

For the first time she knew and loved the Spirit of good and beauty, an affinity to which affords the greatest bliss that our nature can receive. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

There is a love for the marvellous, a belief in the marvellous, interwined in all my projects, which hurries me out of the common pathways of men. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings. — Mary Shelley

On being charged with the fact, the poor girl confirmed the suspicion in a grat measure by her extreme confusion of manner. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Anguish and despair had penetrated into the core of my heart; I bore a hell within me, which nothing could extinguish. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Life has more in it than we think; it is all that we have, all that we know. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Our faults are apt to assume giant and exaggerated forms to our eyes in youth. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

From my infancy I was imbued with high hopes and a lofty ambition. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Those moral laws on which all human excellence is founded - a love of truth in ourselves, and a sincere sympathy with our fellow-creatures. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

And the violet lay dead while the odour flew On the wings of the wind o'er the waters blue. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

To examine the causes of life, we must first have recourse to death. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

I will be cool, persevering, and prudent. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The young are always in extremes. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Evil thenceforth became my good. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

You are my creator, but I am your master; Obey! — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Shall I not then hate them who abhor me? — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

I looked upon the sea, it was to be my grave — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Destiny was too potent, and her immutable laws had decreed my utter and terrible destruction. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Be a man, or be more than a man. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

...I was a shattered wreck,--the shadow of a human being. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

(...) but, oh! the weight of never-ending time - the tedious passage of the still-succeeding hours! — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

...misery had her dwelling in my heart... — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

You have destroyed the work which you began; what is it that you intend? Do you dare to break your promise? I have endured toil and misery; I — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

We are fashioned creatures, but half made up. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

You hate me; but your abhorrence cannot equal that with which I regard myself. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Am I to be thought the only criminal, when all humankind sinned against me? — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The beginning is always today. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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

She saw and marked the revolutions that had been, and the present seemed to her only a point of rest, from which time was to renew his flight. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Alas! he is cold, he cannot answer me. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Yet some feelings, unallied to the dross of human nature, beat even in these rugged bosoms. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Everything must have a beginning ... and that beginning must be linked to something that went before. — 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

Happiness is in its highest degree the sister of goodness. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Invention consists in the capacity of seizing on the capabilities of a subject, and in the power of moulding and fashioning ideas suggested to it, — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

One wondering thought pollutes the day — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Look forward to future years, if not with eager anticipation, yet with a calm reliance upon the power of good, wholly remote from despair. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The sun might shine or the clouds might lower, but nothing could appear to me as it had done the day before. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Every where I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The modern masters promise very little — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

I clung to my ferocious habits, yet half despised them; I continued my war against civilization, and yet entertained a wish to belong to it. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The sentiment of immediate loss in some sort decayed, while that of utter, irremediable loneliness grew on me with time. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

None but those who have experienced them can conceive of the enticements of science. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Once a king ... it was impossible, without risk of life, to sink to a private station. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley