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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Life dates: 1797 AD — 1851 AD

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Quotations and sayings

01c. 1824 AD

The beginning is always today.

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02c. 1824 AD

Even where the affections are not strongly moved by any superior excellence the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain.

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03c. 1824 AD

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose-a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

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04c. 1824 AD

I do not wish women to have power over men but over themselves.

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05c. 1824 AD

My imagination, unbidden, possessed and guided me, gifting the successive images that arose in my mind with a vivdness far beyond the usual bounds of reverie....

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06c. 1824 AD

I seemed to have lost all soul or sensation but for this one pursuit.

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07c. 1824 AD

I wished, as it were, to procrastinate all that related to my feelings of affection until the great object, which swallowed up every habit of my nature, should be completed.

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