Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of voice, but out of chaos.
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A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind.Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food.
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If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections, and to destroy your taste for those simple pleasures in which no alloy can possibly mix, then that study is not befitting the human mind.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
I am very averse to bringing myself forward in print, but as my account will only appear as an appendage to a former production, and as it will be confined to such topics as have connection with my authorship alone, I can hardly accuse myself of a personal intrusion.
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Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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